# ubi mit Homebrew, winget installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ubi
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ubi
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id houseabsolute.ubi -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: houseabsolute.ubi from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ubi
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.10.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Universal Binary Installer
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T21:15:45Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ubi (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.10.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ubi, the Universal Binary Installer, is a small CLI for installing prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases and similar release pages. It belongs to the newer generation of package-helper tools that automate the common shell-script pattern of selecting the right OS and CPU asset, downloading it, and putting the binary on PATH.

### Projektgeschichte

The official repository describes ubi as the Universal Binary Installer. Its release page shows a 0.x project with signed tags, many platform-specific release assets, and continuing changes around asset selection, platform matching, Android support, libc matching, private-repository downloads, and supply-chain safety.

The project is maintained by Dave Rolsky under the houseabsolute namespace and is distributed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT in the batch input. Its own releases are themselves a demonstration of the problem it solves: the v0.9.0 release publishes many per-platform archives and checksum assets.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

ubi is adopted in package-nerd workflows where users want a lightweight installer for GitHub-release binaries without writing a custom curl, tar, and grep script for each tool. The batch input lists Homebrew and winget availability, reflecting its cross-platform installer niche.

Release notes show the project responding to real packaging edge cases: asset names that contain misleading numbers, Android targets, musl versus glibc Linux assets, private repositories, and minimum release age to reduce supply-chain risk.

### Wie es verwendet wird

ubi is used to pick a matching release artifact for the current platform, download it, and install the contained binary. Its package-nerd use case is bootstrapping CLI tools from upstream release assets when a native package does not exist or when the user wants upstream's current binary.

The v0.9.0 release added a --min-age-days flag to consider only releases at least a specified age, explicitly framed by the project as useful for mitigating supply-chain attacks.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ubi matters because GitHub Releases became an unofficial binary distribution layer for many small CLIs. A generic installer for those releases sits between full package managers and one-off install scripts.

For Homebrew users, the amusing recursion is that a package manager can install ubi, and ubi can then install tools that are not packaged or are wanted directly from upstream release artifacts.

### Zeitleiste

- 2024-2026: The visible release history is in the 0.x series, with repeated changes around release-asset matching and platform support.
- 2026: v0.9.0 is released with --min-age-days for release-age filtering.

### Related projects

- GitHub Releases are the primary ecosystem surface for ubi's installer model.
- Homebrew and winget provide native package-manager distribution for ubi itself according to the batch input.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi identifies the project as The Universal Binary Installer.>
- <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi/releases documents release history, platform assets, asset-matching changes, private-repository handling, Android support, libc matching, and the --min-age-days supply-chain feature.>
- source_facts.package-manager identifies Homebrew and winget availability.


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- winget - houseabsolute.ubi: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: houseabsolute.ubi from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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