# Install ckan with Homebrew

Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network. Version 1.36.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-12.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:ckan
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ckan
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:ckan
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.36.4
- **Source summary:** Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-12T20:50:11Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- ckan (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.36.4
## Project history and usage

CKAN is the Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network, a metadata repository and mod manager for Kerbal Space Program. In packaging culture it is a game-specific package manager inspired by Debian and CPAN ideas.

### Project history

The official README defines CKAN as metadata and tools for finding, installing, and managing Kerbal Space Program mods, with dependency and conflict handling. The official specification presents it as an RFC for a standardized archive network for KSP mods.

The GitHub repository was created in 2014, and the release API shows public releases from the same year. The README says the project remains under active development.

### Adoption history

The batch input records CKAN in Homebrew and Nix. Upstream also publishes GitHub releases and a NuGet package badge, while the README points players to the wiki user guide and modders to metadata contribution workflows.

### How it is used

Players use CKAN to find, install, update, and manage KSP mods with compatibility, dependency, and conflict checks. Mod authors and metadata contributors use the CKAN metadata specification and schema to describe mod releases.

### Why package nerds care

CKAN is package-nerd significant because it transposes classic package-manager ideas into a game-mod ecosystem: detached JSON metadata, dependency constraints, conflict metadata, validation, indexes, and an authoritative metadata repository.

### Timeline

- 2014: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2014: Early GitHub release v1.3.3 published.
- 2014: CKAN specification describes Debian and CPAN as design inspirations.
- 2026: Official repository metadata shows continuing activity.

### Related projects

- The CKAN specification cites CPAN metadata, Debian Policy, and KSP-RealSolarSystem-Bundler as design influences.
- The README distinguishes KSP-CKAN from the unrelated open-data portal software also named CKAN.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/blob/master/Spec.md>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/KSP-CKAN/CKAN>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ckan. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ckan.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/ckan.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation