# mmdbctl mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mmdbctl in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:mmdbctl
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mmdbctl
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mmdbctl
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mm/mmdbctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:mmdbctl
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.10
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** MMDB file management CLI supporting various operations on MMDB database files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ipinfo/mmdbctl>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ipinfo/mmdbctl>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-29T17:04:59+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mmdbctl (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.4.10
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

mmdbctl is an IPinfo-maintained command-line tool for working with MaxMind DB (MMDB) files, the binary database format commonly used for IP geolocation and network metadata. Its project documentation presents it as a management CLI rather than only a lookup utility: it can read records for IPs, import CSV/TSV/JSON-style source data into MMDB, export MMDB data, diff two databases, print metadata, verify file validity, and install shell completions.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Its practical niche is the production and inspection side of the MMDB ecosystem. IPinfo community documentation shows it being used to convert IPinfo CSV database downloads into MMDB files with `mmdbctl import --in data.csv --out data.mmdb`, which is the kind of workflow that separates it from lookup-only tools such as MaxMind's mmdblookup or mmdbinspect. Packaging through Homebrew and Nix makes it a small infrastructure utility for developers who maintain private IP intelligence databases or need to transform vendor data into the MMDB format.

### Quellen

- <https://community.ipinfo.io/t/convert-ipinfo-s-csv-database-to-mmdb-using-mmdbctl/73>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mmdbctl>
- <https://github.com/ipinfo/mmdbctl>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - mmdbctl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mm/mmdbctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mmdbctl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mmdbctl.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph