# vala-language-server mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für vala-language-server in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vala-language-server
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vala-language-server
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add vala-language-server
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vala-language-server from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install vala-language-server
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: vala-language-server from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vala-language-server
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:vala-language-server
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.48.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Code Intelligence for Vala & Genie
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- vala-language-server (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.48.7
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Vala Language Server provides Language Server Protocol-style code intelligence for Vala and Genie. It is a developer-tool companion to the Vala compiler, giving editors diagnostics, completion, symbol navigation, hover information, formatting, code actions, call hierarchy, inlay hints, and project awareness.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository presents Vala Language Server as the language server for the Vala programming language and shows a codebase written almost entirely in Vala. Its earliest GitHub pre-release in April 2020 was in the 0.48 alpha series, aligning the server with Vala 0.48-era compiler libraries.

The 0.48 release series continued through 2023. GitHub releases show 0.48-alpha3 in April 2020, 0.48 in May 2020, and 0.48.7 in February 2023.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents installation across Arch/AUR, OBS-backed packages for several distributions, Fedora, elementaryOS, Alpine, Guix, Void, and MSYS2 on Windows. That package spread is notable for a niche language tool, and the input also lists Homebrew, apk, dnf, and Nix packages.

GNOME tooling helped drive adoption. A 2022 This Week in GNOME note explained that after GNOME Builder 43 stopped bundling the Vala Language Server, Flatpak SDK users needed the language server from the Vala Flatpak SDK and other users needed to install it on their system.

### Wie es verwendet wird

VLS is launched by editors as `vala-language-server`. The README provides concrete configuration snippets for coc.nvim, vim-lsp, Neovim's lspconfig, Sublime Text LSP, and notes support in VS Code, GNOME Builder, Kate, and Emacs.

Like other compiled-language servers, VLS depends on project context. The README warns that it cannot know compiler arguments unless it can locate a build script, `compile_commands.json`, or a shebang, and it documents supported project types including Meson, CMake, Autotools, compile commands, and Vala scripts.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, Vala Language Server is the small but important bridge between a distribution-provided compiler stack and modern editor workflows. Installing it from Homebrew or a distro package turns Vala from a plain `valac` command into a language with completion, diagnostics, and navigation in generic LSP-capable editors.

It also exposes the packaging awkwardness of language servers for niche languages: editor plugins, Flatpak SDK extensions, distro packages, and compiler library versions all have to line up for the server to be useful.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: 0.48-alpha3 and 0.48-alpha4 pre-releases are published.
- 2020: 0.48 release is published.
- 2022: GNOME Builder 43 no longer bundles VLS, shifting users toward SDK or system installs.
- 2023: 0.48.7 is published as the latest release shown by GitHub.

### Related projects

- Vala and libvala provide the compiler stack VLS depends on.
- GNOME Builder, VS Code, Vim, Neovim, Kate, Emacs, and Sublime Text are editor surfaces documented by the project.
- Meson, CMake, Autotools, and `compile_commands.json` are project-discovery mechanisms VLS understands.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/vala-lang/vala-language-server/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server>
- <https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server/releases>
- <https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/10/twig-64/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## 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 - vala-language-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/va/vala-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - vala-language-server - 0.48.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vala-language-server from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Code Intelligence for Vala | https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server
- apk - vala-language-server-dbg - 0.48.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vala-language-server-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Code Intelligence for Vala (debug symbols) | https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server
- apk - vala-language-server-doc - 0.48.7-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vala-language-server-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Code Intelligence for Vala (documentation) | https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server
- dnf - vala-language-server - 0.48.7-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: vala-language-server from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Language server for the Vala programming language | https://github.com/Prince781/vala-language-server


## Combined YAML source

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