# Install acme with Homebrew, apt, Nix, pacman

Crossassembler for multiple environments. Version 0.97 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-26. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install acme.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:acme
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install acme
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install acme
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#acme
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S acme
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:acme
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.97
- **Source summary:** Crossassembler for multiple environments
- **Homepage:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/acme-crossass/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-26T23:37:47-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- acme (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.97
## Project history and usage

ACME Cross-Assembler is a command-line cross assembler for 6502-family development. The official SourceForge project describes it as a multi-platform assembler for 6502, 6510, 65c02, and 65816 CPUs.

### Project history

The official SourceForge project presents ACME as a GPL-licensed cross assembler for multiple environments. Its current SourceForge code tree exposes source, docs, examples, testing material, and ACME_Lib, with the trunk shown at revision 454 during this batch.

The in-tree documentation records detailed assembler behavior, including pseudo opcodes, address modes, CPU-specific behavior, and 65816 support. The source also carries compatibility dialects for historical ACME versions from 0.85 through 0.98, showing that the tool has had a long-running version lineage.

### Adoption history

ACME is packaged as a small retro-computing developer tool rather than a broad application framework. The input package-manager facts list Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Arch, and Ubuntu packages, matching its use by developers who want a Unix-packaged assembler for 6502-family targets.

### How it is used

Package users invoke the acme executable to assemble source for 6502, 6510, 65c02, and 65816 targets. The official documentation covers pseudo opcodes for emitting values, selecting CPU behavior, handling 65816 register lengths, and controlling assembler dialect compatibility.

### Why package nerds care

ACME matters to package nerds because it is a classic niche CLI: small, GPL-licensed, useful to retro-computing and demoscene workflows, and distributed through Unix package managers for repeatable builds of old-machine software.

### Timeline

- 2020-07-10: SourceForge file listing shows acme0.97mac.zip released.
- Current: SourceForge code browser shows trunk at revision 454.
- Current: Source code lists compatibility dialects from 0.85 through 0.98.

### Related projects

- Related projects include other 6502-family assemblers, Commodore and 65816 development toolchains, and retro-computing build systems that package cross assemblers for reproducible command-line builds.

### Sources

- Official SourceForge project page, code browser, in-tree docs, source file, and source_facts.package-manager.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - acme - 1:0.97~svn20211115+ds-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: acme from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Multi-platform cross assembler for 6502/6510/65816 CPU | https://sourceforge.net/projects/acme-crossass/
- Nix - acme: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ac/acme/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - acme - 1:0.97~svn20211115+ds-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: acme from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Multi-platform cross assembler for 6502/6510/65816 CPU | https://sourceforge.net/projects/acme-crossass/
- pacman - acme - 2025.07.11-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: acme from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Assembler for the 6502, 6510, 65c02 and 65816 processors | https://sourceforge.net/projects/acme-crossass/


## Combined YAML source

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