# Installer taktuk avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:taktuk
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install taktuk
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install taktuk
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: taktuk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#taktuk
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:taktuk
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.7.8
- **Résumé source:** Deploy commands to (a potentially large set of) remote nodes
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- taktuk (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 3.7.8
## Historique du projet et usages

TakTuk is an Inria-origin tool for adaptive large-scale remote execution deployment. Its homepage describes a command-line system that spreads itself across remote nodes, builds an interconnection network, transports commands, and multiplexes or demultiplexes I/O.

### Historique du projet

The TakTuk documentation credits the original concept to Cyrille Martin's PhD thesis and names Jacques Briat, Olivier Richard, Thierry Gautier, and Guillaume Huard among the people involved. Version 3, the Perl version, is credited to Guillaume Huard and is the maintained package line documented by the site.

The January 2007 TakTuk 3.0 release was the first stable release of the new Perl engine. The project notes that moving from earlier C++ versions to Perl allowed TakTuk to propagate its own code to remote hosts, avoiding the need to install TakTuk everywhere before deployment.

### Historique d'adoption

TakTuk was accepted into Debian's unstable branch in February 2007, a key package-manager milestone for a cluster-administration tool. The TakTuk download page directs Debian users to `apt-get install taktuk` and acknowledges Lucas Nussbaum's packaging, documentation, and testing work.

The project was used with KAAPI in GRIDS@work plugtests in 2006, 2007, and 2008, including deployments across more than 1400 processors in 2006 and more than 3600 processor cores in 2007 and 2008. In March 2012, the TakTuk news page reported TakTuk as a base tool in Grid5000/FutureGrid.

### Modes d'utilisation

TakTuk uses passwordless remote login, normally SSH, to establish a logical network between hosts. It can execute commands on deployed nodes, send input to commands, gather output to the root host, and allow deployed processes to communicate through the logical network.

The project positions TakTuk for parallel machine administration and parallel application development. For simpler regular-cluster tasks, the site recommends Kanif, a wrapper that provides C3-, pdsh-, and dsh-like behavior while relying on TakTuk underneath.

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

Package nerds care about TakTuk because it is a classic cluster-era Unix tool with a strong packaging story: Perl implementation, SSH-based operation, Debian packaging, Homebrew/Nix availability, and a wrapper ecosystem. It also illustrates why package managers matter for infrastructure tools that must be deployed consistently across many machines.

### Chronologie

- 2006: TakTuk used in the third GRIDS@work Grid5000 plugtest with KAAPI.
- 2007-01-26: TakTuk 3.0 released as the first stable Perl-engine release.
- 2007-02: TakTuk accepted into Debian unstable.
- 2007-07: Kanif 1.0 released as a TakTuk wrapper.
- 2008-11: TakTuk::Pilot Perl module released with TakTuk 3.6.2.
- 2010-03: TakTuk 3.7 series added deployment groups, gateway support, process targeting, and wait commands.
- 2012-03: TakTuk reported as a base tool in Grid5000/FutureGrid.

### Related projects

- Related tools include Kanif, the TakTuk wrapper for cluster management, and older cluster command dispatch tools such as C3, pdsh, and dsh whose syntax and behavior Kanif intentionally mimics.

### Sources

- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>
- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/download.html>
- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/kanif.html>
- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/news.html>
- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/taktuk_module.html>
- <https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/use.html>


## 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

- Debian apt - libtaktuk-1-dev - 3.7.7-3.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libtaktuk-1-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C bindings for taktuk (development files) | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Debian apt - libtaktuk-perl - 3.7.7-3.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libtaktuk-perl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Perl bindings for taktuk | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Debian apt - libtaktuk3t64 - 3.7.7-3.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libtaktuk3t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C bindings for taktuk | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Debian apt - taktuk - 3.7.7-3.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: taktuk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | efficient, large scale, parallel remote execution of commands | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Nix - taktuk: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ta/taktuk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libtaktuk-1-dev - 3.7.7-3.1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libtaktuk-1-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C bindings for taktuk (development files) | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Ubuntu apt - libtaktuk-perl - 3.7.7-3.1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libtaktuk-perl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Perl bindings for taktuk | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Ubuntu apt - libtaktuk3t64 - 3.7.7-3.1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libtaktuk3t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C bindings for taktuk | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
- Ubuntu apt - taktuk - 3.7.7-3.1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: taktuk from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | efficient, large scale, parallel remote execution of commands | https://taktuk.gitlabpages.inria.fr/


## Combined YAML source

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