# Install crates-tui with Homebrew, Nix

TUI for exploring crates.io using Ratatui. Version 0.1.25 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#crates-tui.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:crates-tui
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install crates-tui
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#crates-tui
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:crates-tui
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.25
- **Source summary:** TUI for exploring crates.io using Ratatui
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- crates-tui (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.25
## Project history and usage

crates-tui is a Ratatui-based terminal interface for exploring crates.io. It combines Rust package discovery with a reference implementation for small to medium Ratatui applications.

### Project history

The ratatui/crates-tui repository was created in February 2024. Its README describes a simple crates.io explorer with clipboard support for cargo add commands, browser links for documentation and crates.io pages, configurable key chords, custom widgets, and async crate metadata fetching.

### Adoption history

Official installation documentation is oriented first around cargo install, with an Arch Linux AUR example. Homebrew and Nix packaging in the supplied package facts indicate that it also moved into general-purpose package-manager distribution.

### How it is used

Users run crates-tui to search crates.io from the terminal, inspect crate summaries, copy cargo add commands, and open documentation or crates.io pages in a browser.

### Why package nerds care

crates-tui is package-nerd software in two senses: it is a package browser for the Rust ecosystem, and its upstream README explicitly frames the repository as an opinionated reference for organizing Ratatui TUI applications.

### Timeline

- 2024: ratatui/crates-tui repository created.
- 2024: v0.1.3 release published.
- 2024: v0.1.7 release published.

### Related projects

- The project is built on Ratatui and targets crates.io workflows; its README points readers to ratatui.rs for related tutorial material.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui>
- <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui#readme>
- <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui/releases/tag/v0.1.3>
- <https://github.com/ratatui/crates-tui/releases/tag/v0.1.7>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## 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: $CRATES_TUI_CONFIG_HOME/config.toml, $CRATES_TUI_CONFIG_HOME/color.yaml, ./.config/config.toml, ./.config/color.yaml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - crates-tui: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cr/crates-tui/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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