# Installer solc-select avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:solc-select
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install solc-select
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#solc-select
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: solc-select from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:solc-select
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Résumé source:** Manage multiple Solidity compiler versions
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/crytic/solc-select>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/crytic/solc-select>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-14T12:58:22Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- solc-select (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.2.0
## Historique du projet et usages

solc-select is a small command-line version manager for the Solidity compiler. It provides a `solc-select` management command and a `solc` wrapper so developers can install and switch among Solidity compiler releases.

### Historique du projet

The project README describes solc-select as a tool for quickly switching between Solidity compiler versions. Its setup metadata identifies Trail of Bits as the author and publishes the project from the official Crytic GitHub organization.

The tool downloads compiler binaries from Solidity's official binary distribution and stores them under `~/.solc-select/artifacts/`, keeping local compiler selection separate from system package-manager versions.

### Historique d'adoption

The supplied package-manager facts list solc-select in Homebrew and Nix, reflecting its role as a developer convenience package for Ethereum and Solidity workstations. Homebrew marks it as conflicting with the `solidity` formula, which matches its job of supplying the `solc` wrapper executable.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical use is to install a compiler version with `solc-select install <version>`, choose a global version with `solc-select use <version>`, or override the selected compiler for one command with the `SOLC_VERSION` environment variable.

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

solc-select is package-nerd bait because Solidity projects often pin old compiler versions in source pragmas. Instead of forcing the OS package manager to carry many parallel `solc` packages, solc-select acts like a language-specific shim manager for the compiler.

### Chronologie

- 2020: The official setup metadata on the master branch identifies version 0.2.1.
- 2021: Git tags include the 1.0.x series.
- 2026: The Homebrew formula in the supplied facts packages solc-select for current macOS and Linux users.

### Related projects

- Solidity provides the compiler binaries that solc-select downloads. Crytic and Trail of Bits security tooling often need repeatable Solidity compiler selection for analysis workflows.

### Sources

- Input package-manager facts: source_facts.package-manager and source_facts.package-manager-url
- Official README: https://github.com/crytic/solc-select#readme
- Official setup metadata: https://github.com/crytic/solc-select/blob/master/setup.py


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour solc-select. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.



## 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: ~/.solc-select/global-version
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - solc-select: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: solc-select from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix


## Combined YAML source

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