# Installer halp avec Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:halp
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install halp
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add halp
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#halp
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S halp
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:halp
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Résumé source:** CLI tool to get help with CLI tools
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://halp.cli.rs/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/orhun/halp>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- halp (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.2.0
## Historique du projet et usages

halp is a Rust command-line helper for discovering how another command exposes help and version information. It sits in the small but useful package-manager niche of tools that smooth over inconsistent CLI conventions.

### Historique du projet

The project is maintained by Orhun Parmaksiz and documents itself as a CLI tool for getting help with CLI tools. Its copyright notice covers 2023-2024, and the repository and project site present the same core idea: try common help and version flags, then offer a `plz` mode for manual pages or cheat sheets.

### Historique d'adoption

halp is distributed as a Rust crate, source build, binary release, Docker image, Arch package, and Homebrew formula. That spread is modest, but it is enough to make the tool available through common developer package paths without needing a custom install script.

### Modes d'utilisation

The default workflow is `halp <command>`, which probes common help and version arguments such as `-h`, `--help`, `-v`, and `--version`. The `plz` subcommand opens local manual pages or cheat.sh, and the documented configuration file lets users tune the checked arguments and helper commands.

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

halp is interesting to package nerds because it codifies a real CLI ecosystem wart: help and version flags are conventional, not universal. Packaging it gives shell users a tiny compatibility shim across arbitrary commands, especially on minimal systems where shell completions or richer docs may not be installed.

### Chronologie

- 2023-2024: Project copyright range documented by the official site.
- 2024: Project documentation describes Cargo, Arch, Docker, binary-release, and source-build installation paths.

### Related projects

- The project delegates deeper help to Unix manual pages and cheat.sh, positioning itself as a dispatcher rather than a replacement for those documentation systems.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/halp>
- <https://github.com/orhun/halp>
- <https://halp.cli.rs/>


## 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 - halp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/halp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - halp - 0.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools | https://github.com/orhun/halp
- apk - halp-bash-completion - 0.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for halp | https://github.com/orhun/halp
- apk - halp-doc - 0.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools (documentation) | https://github.com/orhun/halp
- apk - halp-fish-completion - 0.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for halp | https://github.com/orhun/halp
- apk - halp-zsh-completion - 0.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for halp | https://github.com/orhun/halp
- pacman - halp - 0.2.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: halp from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools | https://github.com/orhun/halp


## Combined YAML source

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