# Installer bob avec Homebrew, pacman, scoop

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:bob
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bob
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S bob
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/bob
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:bob
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.1.7
- **Résumé source:** Version manager for neovim
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- bob (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.1.7
## Historique du projet et usages

Bob is a Rust command-line version manager for Neovim, aimed at users who want to install, switch, run, and remove stable, nightly, versioned, or commit-specific Neovim builds from one tool.

### Historique du projet

The project presents itself as a cross-platform Neovim version manager and distributes install scripts, release archives, nightly builds, pacman packaging, and a crates.io install path from its official README. Its notices show an actively maintained tool that has changed implementation details over time, including macOS storage changes in 2022, a proxy executable migration in 2023, improved Apple Silicon support in 2024, and OpenSSL build deprecation in 2025.

### Historique d'adoption

Bob's adoption is mostly within Neovim power-user and plugin-development circles, where testing multiple Neovim versions is routine. The input package facts list Homebrew, Arch/pacman, and Scoop packaging, showing it crossed from cargo-based installation into mainstream system package channels.

### Modes d'utilisation

Common usage is `bob install`, `bob use`, and `bob run` for stable, nightly, latest, explicit versions, or commit hashes. The tool also supports rollback, erase, list, sync, and source builds of Neovim.

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

Bob is package-nerd interesting because it treats a fast-moving editor as a versioned runtime, much like language version managers do for Node, Ruby, or Python. It also sits at the intersection of Rust CLI distribution, Neovim nightly culture, and cross-platform binary management.

### Chronologie

- 2022: Official notice moves Bob's macOS symbolic link and downloads folder away from Application Support.
- 2023: Bob switches to a proxy executable model for running Neovim executables.
- 2024: Bob adds complete ARM support for recent macOS Neovim binary changes and later deprecates nvim-qt support.
- 2025: OpenSSL builds are deprecated in favor of standard Bob builds.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Neovim itself, rustup-style version managers, and editor/runtime switchers used by developers who test against nightly and released toolchains.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob#readme>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- 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

- Linux: /home/user/.config/bob/config.json, /home/user/.config/bob/config.toml
- macOS: /Users/user/Library/Application Support/bob/config.json, /Users/user/Library/Application Support/bob/config.toml
- Windows: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\bob\config.json, C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\bob\config.toml
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- pacman - bob - 4.1.7-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: bob from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A version manager for neovim | https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob
- Scoop - main/bob: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/bob.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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