# Install micronaut with Homebrew, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget

Modern JVM-based framework for building modular microservices. Version 5.1.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-28. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#micronaut.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:micronaut
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install micronaut
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install micronaut
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: java/micronaut/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#micronaut
```

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

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install micronaut
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: micronaut from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='10.804','zoxide'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/micronaut
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Micronaut.Launch -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:micronaut
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Source summary:** Modern JVM-based framework for building modular microservices
- **Homepage:** <https://micronaut.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-starter>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28T02:15:51Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mn (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 5.1.0
## Project history and usage

Micronaut is a JVM framework introduced by Graeme Rocher and the Object Computing team that built Grails. It was open sourced on May 23, 2018, with an explicit focus on microservices for Java, Groovy, and Kotlin, and reached 1.0 GA on October 23, 2018. Its defining design choice is compile-time dependency injection, AOP, and metadata generation, avoiding the reflection-heavy runtime model used by many older JVM application frameworks.

### Project history

Technically, Micronaut combined a Netty-based HTTP server and client, cloud-native configuration, service discovery, client-side load balancing, and serverless/microservice tooling with low startup time and memory use. That made it part of the same package-manager space as Spring Boot, Quarkus, Helidon, and Grails, but with a strong ahead-of-time and GraalVM-friendly identity.

### How it is used

The project later gained formal foundation backing and corporate support. Oracle joined the Micronaut Foundation as an engineering partner in 2022 after contributing since 2020, including work around Micronaut AOT and Serialization. In 2026 the project announced plans to join the Commonhaus Foundation and described adoption across large corporations, small companies, private users, and more than 900 contributors. The Homebrew formula packages the `mn` launcher, used to generate and manage Micronaut applications from the command line.

### Sources

- <https://docs.micronaut.io/index.html>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/micronaut>
- <https://micronaut.io/2018/05/23/micronaut-open-sourced/>
- <https://micronaut.io/2018/10/23/micronaut-1-0-ga-released/>
- <https://micronaut.io/2022/10/04/announcing-our-new-engineering-partner-oracle/>
- <https://micronaut.io/2026/01/12/micronaut-announces-plans-to-join-the-commonhaus-foundation/>


## Security Notes

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


## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - micronaut: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/micronaut/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - micronaut: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: java/micronaut/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - micronaut: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: micronaut from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='10.804','zoxide'
- Scoop - main/micronaut: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/micronaut.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Micronaut.Launch: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Micronaut.Launch from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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