# Installer cmix avec Homebrew

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cmix
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cmix
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:cmix
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 21
- **Résumé source:** Data compression program with high compression ratio
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/byronknoll/cmix>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-10T17:22:42-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- cmix (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 21
## Historique du projet et usages

cmix is Byron Knoll's lossless data compression program aimed at compression ratio rather than speed or memory thrift.

### Historique du projet

The official homepage describes cmix as a lossless compressor that optimizes compression ratio at the cost of high CPU and memory use, with state-of-the-art results on several compression benchmarks.

The homepage download table records a long public release line beginning with v1 in April 2014 and continuing through v21 in September 2024. The GitHub repository was created in November 2015 and tracks the source-control era of the project.

### Historique d'adoption

cmix is distributed narrowly compared with mainstream compressors: the input package facts list Homebrew only. Its adoption is therefore less about day-to-day compression and more about access for people studying or benchmarking high-ratio compressors.

### Modes d'utilisation

The official homepage emphasizes Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X support and recommends at least 32 GB of RAM. That framing makes cmix a benchmark and experimentation tool rather than a default archive format for ordinary users.

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

cmix matters to package nerds because it is a deliberately impractical compressor in the useful sense: high CPU and memory needs make the packaging problem about reproducible builds, large-resource tests, and benchmark comparability rather than command convenience.

### Chronologie

- 2014-04: v1 release listed on the official homepage.
- 2015-11: GitHub repository created and v8 release listed.
- 2019-08: v18 release listed.
- 2023-11: v20 release listed.
- 2024-09: v21 release listed.

### Related projects

- The official homepage links cmix results to the Calgary, Silesia, enwik, Large Text Compression, Silesia Open Source Compression, and Lossless Photo Compression benchmarks.

### Sources

- <https://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/byronknoll/cmix>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/byronknoll/cmix/releases>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph