# Installer genact avec Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:genact
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install genact
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install genact
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: games/genact/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add genact
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: genact from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#genact
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S genact
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/genact
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id svenstaro.genact -e
```

  Preuve: Windows Package Manager source index: svenstaro.genact from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:genact
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Résumé source:** Nonsense activity generator
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/svenstaro/genact>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-15T10:20:17-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- genact (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.5.1
## Historique du projet et usages

genact is a playful terminal program that prints convincing fake activity, such as compilations, downloads, memory dumps, package builds, and other busy-looking modules. Its package history is mostly about a joke utility becoming a polished cross-platform Rust CLI with releases, shell completions, a WebAssembly version, and broad package-manager availability.

### Historique du projet

The repository began in 2011 as a small activity simulator and later accumulated modules that imitate common developer and system-administration tasks. Public tags began in 2018, and the project eventually reached 1.x releases with a Rust implementation, prebuilt binaries, Docker images, Cargo installation, and a browser version.

The README states the premise directly: open a few instances and pretend something useful is happening. That framing made genact part of a small genre of terminal toys that are technically packaged like serious CLIs but culturally used for demos, screenshots, streams, and humor.

### Historique d'adoption

genact's adoption is visible through its many packaging paths: prebuilt Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries; FreeBSD packages; Homebrew; MacPorts; Scoop; Cargo; Docker; and a WebAssembly web build. That breadth is unusual for a joke utility and explains why it appears in package-manager indexes beyond the Rust ecosystem.

### Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners run `genact` to generate plausible terminal output during presentations, demos, videos, idle screens, or harmless pranks. The CLI can list modules, select specific modules, change speed, exit after time or module counts, and emit shell completions and a manpage.

Its module list imitates familiar tooling such as Ansible, Cargo, Docker builds, kernel compiles, Terraform, web logs, package downloads, cryptomining, and boot logs, making it visually legible to developers even though no real work is performed.

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

genact is interesting to package nerds because it is a toy with real distribution hygiene: Rust crate, static release binaries, Docker image, Homebrew formula, WebAssembly target, shell completions, and a manpage. It is the sort of tiny package that proves whether a package manager's long tail is healthy.

### Chronologie

- 2011: Initial repository commits for activity simulation.
- 2018: Early tagged releases begin with the 0.2 and 0.3 series.
- 2022: The project reaches the 1.0 release series.
- 2020s: Browser/WebAssembly usage and package-manager coverage broaden the ways to run it.

### Related projects

- genact is related to Rust CLI tooling, terminal demo utilities, asciinema-style presentation workflows, and WebAssembly ports of command-line programs.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/genact>
- <https://github.com/svenstaro/genact>
- <https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - genact: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/genact/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - genact - 1.5.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: genact from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A nonsense activity generator | https://github.com/svenstaro/genact
- pacman - genact - 1.5.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: genact from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A nonsense activity generator | https://github.com/svenstaro/genact
- MacPorts - genact: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: games/genact/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/genact: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/genact.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - svenstaro.genact: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: svenstaro.genact from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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