# zenith mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, winget installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:zenith
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install zenith
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install zenith
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/zenith/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add zenith
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#zenith
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S zenith
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: zenith from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install zenith
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: zenith from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id MakotoArai.Zenith -e
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:zenith
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.15.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** In terminal graphical metrics for your *nix system
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-08T22:26:37Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- zenith (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.15.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Zenith is a Rust terminal system monitor for Unix-like systems, pitched as a top/htop-like tool with graphical, zoomable charts for CPU, memory, disk, network, process, battery, and optional NVIDIA GPU metrics.

### Projektgeschichte

Zenith grew out of the late-2010s wave of Rust terminal utilities that reimagined established Unix admin tools with richer terminal UIs. Its README describes a system monitor written in Rust, with optional charts, a filterable process table, process signaling, saved performance data between runs, and Linux/macOS support.

The release history shows Zenith already shipping regular tagged releases by October 2020, with 0.11.0 adding process-view and packaging improvements, and 0.12.0 following in January with Apple M1 arm64 support. Later releases continued the pragmatic pattern of dependency updates, platform fixes, and metric/UI improvements rather than a large product pivot.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Zenith's adoption is practical and package-driven. The README documents GitHub release binaries, Debian/Ubuntu deb packages, deb-get, Arch packaging, Homebrew, and Cargo-from-git installation, while the supplied package data adds Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, winget, and openSUSE-family packaging.

It occupies the same discovery niche as other modern terminal monitors: users find it while looking for a more visual `top`, `htop`, `btop`, or `bottom` style workflow, especially when they want scrollback in charts or GPU/process details in one terminal screen.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Operators run `zenith` interactively to watch system utilization, browse process tables, zoom into historical charts, and send signals or change priorities from the TUI. Linux users can enable extra accounting and NVIDIA GPU metrics when the build and permissions support them.

Because Zenith is primarily an interactive monitor rather than a library, its package value is concentrated in the single executable and optional build variants such as NVIDIA support, musl/static builds, and distribution-specific packaging.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zenith is a good example of a Rust CLI that became package-manager-visible because it offers a nicer interactive experience than the base system tools without replacing the operating system's monitoring stack. For package nerds, the interesting parts are platform support, native dependency friction around libclang/NVIDIA, and whether the packaged build includes the expected metrics features.

It also illustrates the crowded but useful terminal-monitor category: many packages do similar things, so maintainers and users evaluate them by installability, terminal compatibility, metric coverage, and how much runtime privilege is needed for deeper process accounting.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020-10-25: GitHub release page shows Zenith 0.11.0 with UI, process, and Debian package build improvements.
- 2021-01-13: Zenith 0.12.0 adds Apple M1 arm64 support.
- Ongoing: Releases continue with dependency updates, platform fixes, and monitoring feature refinements.

### Related projects

- top and htop are the classic process monitors Zenith is commonly compared with.
- btop and bottom occupy a similar modern terminal-monitor niche.
- NVML is relevant to Zenith's optional NVIDIA GPU metrics support.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith#readme>
- <https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für zenith wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - zenith: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ze/zenith/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - zenith - 0.14.1-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zenith from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Sort of like htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, disk usage | https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith
- pacman - zenith - 0.15.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: zenith from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Terminal system monitor with histograms | https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith
- zypper - zenith - 0.15.0-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: zenith from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts | https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith
- MacPorts - zenith: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/zenith/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - MakotoArai.Zenith: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: MakotoArai.Zenith from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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