# Install komac with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Community Manifest Creator for Windows Package Manager (WinGet). Version 2.16.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#komac.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:komac
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install komac
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#komac
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/komac
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/komac.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id RussellBanks.Komac -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: RussellBanks.Komac from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:komac
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.16.0
- **Source summary:** Community Manifest Creator for Windows Package Manager (WinGet)
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/russellbanks/Komac>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/russellbanks/Komac>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- komac (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.16.0
## Project history and usage

Komac is a Rust command-line tool for creating, updating, and submitting manifests to Microsoft's Windows Package Manager community repository. Its package-nerd niche is the automation layer around WinGet packaging: it analyzes installer formats, generates manifest data, and can submit pull requests rather than asking maintainers to hand-edit YAML.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created on 2022-11-01 and describes Komac as the Community Manifest Creator for WinGet. Public releases began with a nightly release on 2023-01-28 and a v1.0.0 release on 2023-02-10.

### Adoption history

Komac grew around the operational pain of maintaining winget-pkgs manifests. Its README positions it against WingetCreate and YamlCreate, emphasizing cross-platform operation, deeper installer analysis, release-note retrieval, and working without a local winget-pkgs clone.

### How it is used

Users run commands such as `komac new`, `komac update`, `komac remove`, and `komac sync` to create manifests, add package versions, remove versions, or synchronize a fork of winget-pkgs. The README also documents GitHub token setup for submitting pull requests to winget-pkgs.

### Why package nerds care

Komac matters to package maintainers because it turns Windows package manifest work into a reproducible CLI flow, including installer introspection for formats such as Inno Setup, NSIS, MSI, Burn, and MSIX.

### Timeline

- 2022-11-01: GitHub repository created.
- 2023-01-28: Nightly release published.
- 2023-02-10: v1.0.0 release published.

### Related projects

- Komac is related to Microsoft's winget-pkgs repository, WingetCreate, YamlCreate, WinGet Releaser, and GitHub Actions that call Komac during release publishing.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/russellbanks/Komac>
- <https://github.com/russellbanks/Komac>
- <https://github.com/russellbanks/Komac/releases/tag/v1.0.0>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/russellbanks/Komac/main/README.md>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - komac: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ko/komac/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/komac: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/komac.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - RussellBanks.Komac: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: RussellBanks.Komac from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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