# Installer meilisearch avec Homebrew, Nix, pacman, scoop

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de meilisearch pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:meilisearch
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install meilisearch
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#meilisearch
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S meilisearch
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/meilisearch
```

  Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/meilisearch.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:meilisearch
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/meilisearch>
- **Version:** 1.52.0
- **Résumé source:** Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://docs.meilisearch.com/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch>
- **Docs amont:** <https://docs.meilisearch.com/>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/archive/refs/tags/v1.52.0.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-08-03T15:22:08Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- meilisearch (cli)
- meilisearch (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- rust

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Service: declared
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 1.52.0
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-08-03
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch
- dernière version détectée: v1.52.0 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

Meilisearch is an open-source search engine distributed as a single binary with a REST API. The official documentation presents it as a fast, typo-tolerant, full-text, semantic, and hybrid search engine for websites, apps, documentation, internal tools, and AI retrieval workflows.

### Historique du projet

Meilisearch grew around a developer-experience pitch: install one binary, send documents, and get fast search-as-you-type with sensible defaults instead of operating a heavier search cluster. The current README and docs still foreground that single-binary REST model, SDKs, typo tolerance, filtering, faceting, sorting, synonyms, geosearch, API keys, and multi-tenancy.

Version 1.0.0 marked a stabilization milestone. The v1.0.0 release notes describe it as the first major release, with emphasis on CLI stability, final breaking CLI changes before v2.0.0, language-support improvements, indexing and search-speed work, and migration support from older versions via dumps.

The project later expanded beyond classic keyword search. Current official docs describe fast full-text search, semantic search, hybrid search, conversational interfaces, RAG-oriented retrieval, vector embeddings, sharding, replication, Meilisearch Cloud, and SDKs for more than ten languages.

### Historique d'adoption

Meilisearch became one of the more visible packaged search servers in the developer-tools ecosystem. The GitHub repository shows tens of thousands of stars and thousands of forks, and the supplied package facts list Homebrew, Nix, pacman, and Scoop packages.

Its adoption is helped by the packaging shape: a Rust binary, Docker images, release binaries, and straightforward config via command-line flags, environment variables, or a TOML file. That makes it attractive for local development, small production services, SaaS search features, and demos where Elasticsearch-style operational weight is unwanted.

### Modes d'utilisation

A typical self-hosted Meilisearch setup starts the server, indexes JSON documents, and uses the HTTP API or SDKs for search. The docs state that command-line options have highest configuration precedence, then environment variables, then the TOML config file.

By default Meilisearch looks for config.toml in the working directory. The docs also document MEILI_CONFIG_FILE_PATH and --config-file-path for overriding that location.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Meilisearch matters to package maintainers because it is a modern search daemon whose appeal depends on low-friction installation. It sits at the intersection of Rust services, developer-local databases, REST APIs, and search infrastructure, so package updates carry both binary compatibility and index-format migration concerns.

### Chronologie

- 2023-02-06: Meilisearch v1.0.0 released as the first major release.
- 2023: v1.0 release notes stabilized CLI behavior and committed to no breaking changes before v2.0.0.
- 2026: Current docs describe full-text, semantic, hybrid, and conversational search in one API.

### Related projects

- milli: Meilisearch's search/indexing engine referenced in release notes.
- Meilisearch Cloud: the hosted service for Meilisearch.
- Official SDKs: JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Swift, and Dart clients documented by the project.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch>
- <https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases/tag/v1.0.0>
- <https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/getting_started/overview>
- <https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/resources/self_hosting/configuration/overview>
- source_facts.package-manager-url


## Notes de sécurité

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## 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: ./config.toml
- Windows: .\config.toml
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** meilisearch
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - meilisearch: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/meilisearch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - meilisearch - 1:1.52.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: meilisearch from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Lightning Fast, Ultra Relevant, and Typo-Tolerant Search Engine | https://docs.meilisearch.com/
- Scoop - main/meilisearch: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/meilisearch.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/fr/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/fr/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/fr/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/fr/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [rust](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pgroonga](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/pgroonga/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search.
- [opensearch](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/opensearch/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, rest-api, search, search-engine.
- [manticoresearch](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/manticoresearch/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine.
- [opensearch-dashboards](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/opensearch-dashboards/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, search.
- [sonic](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/sonic/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search.
- [carrot2](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/carrot2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, rest-api, search.
- [ngt](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/ngt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, search.
- [omega](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/omega/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, data, search, search-engine.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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