# volt mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:volt
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install volt
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#volt
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:volt
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Meta-level vim package manager
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/vim-volt/volt>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/vim-volt/volt>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T00:30:34+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- volt (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3.7
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Volt is a Go-based, meta-level Vim package manager built around Vim 8's native package feature. It focuses on command-line management of Vim plugin repositories, plugin configuration files, profiles, and lock-file based setup.

### Projektgeschichte

The vim-volt/volt repository was created in September 2017, during the period when Vim 8 packages gave users a built-in directory layout for plugins. Volt's README explicitly describes it as based on the Vim 8 packages feature and installs managed plugins under `~/.vim/pack/volt`.

Volt's feature set reflects a post-Vundle, post-pathogen package-manager niche: it uses native package loading for startup behavior, while adding a CLI for parallel plugin updates, version locking, per-plugin plugconf files, and switchable profiles for Vim configurations.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Volt remained a niche Vim package manager rather than a dominant tool like vim-plug. Its GitHub repository shows modest adoption, with hundreds rather than thousands of stars, but continued public activity and releases through the late 2010s.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A typical Volt workflow installs plugins with `volt get`, records repositories in `$VOLTPATH/lock.json`, and runs `volt build` to synchronize `$VOLTPATH` content into Vim's `~/.vim/pack/volt` tree. Users can update all plugins with `volt get -l -u`, remove plugins with `volt rm`, and switch plugin/vimrc sets through profiles.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Volt is interesting because it treats Vim plugins more like a managed package set than a hand-written vimrc stanza. Its lock file, profile system, and separate plugconf files are the package-manager layer; Vim's native package loader remains the runtime mechanism.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017-09-18: The vim-volt/volt GitHub repository was created.
- 2018-03-31: v0.3.4 was published, one of the early public release tags visible through the GitHub releases API.
- 2019-05-26: v0.3.7 was published.

### Related projects

- Vim 8 packages are the native feature Volt builds on.
- vim-plug, Vundle, pathogen, and dein.vim are adjacent Vim plugin managers in the same package-management lineage.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/vim-volt/volt>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/vim-volt/volt/releases>
- <https://github.com/vim-volt/volt>
- <https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/388/what-are-the-differences-between-the-vim-plugin-managers>


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $VOLTPATH/config.toml, ~/volt/config.toml
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - volt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vo/volt/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/volt.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/volt.yml)


## Quellen

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