Install openlist with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• openlist

Project history

AList established the base model: a Go and SolidJS application for presenting many storage providers through a file-listing web UI and WebDAV access. OpenList forked that codebase under the OpenList Team with AGPL-3.0 licensing, independent maintenance, and explicit governance messaging around source openness and modification transparency.

The OpenList documentation emphasizes migration from AList V3, which makes the project history unusually visible in its packaging story. Rather than presenting as a brand-new file server, OpenList positions itself as a continuity fork for users who wanted the AList workflow under a different trust and governance model.

Adoption history

OpenList's early adoption is concentrated in the self-hosted and homelab ecosystem where AList had already been used to aggregate cloud drives, local disks, and network storage behind one web interface. The presence of Homebrew, Nix, Scoop, and Winget package metadata suggests the project pursued multi-platform installer coverage quickly after the fork.

Because the fork was motivated by trust and governance concerns, adoption is less about a novel protocol and more about continuity: users can preserve a familiar file-listing/WebDAV stack while moving to a project whose maintainers foreground open governance.

How it is used

Users run OpenList as a server process, configure storage providers, and expose a browser-based file list and WebDAV endpoint. The official quick-start documentation lists installation paths such as script install, manual install, Docker, desktop, PaaS, source builds, and reverse proxy deployment.

Package-manager users can install the `openlist` executable through Homebrew, while other ecosystems publish package identifiers for Nix, Scoop, and Winget. Typical use is personal or small-team storage aggregation rather than a general-purpose database or synchronization engine.

Why package nerds care

OpenList is package-nerd-significant because it is a governance fork whose package identity matters. The formula is not just a renamed AList binary: it points to a distinct upstream organization, docs site, license declaration, and release line.

It is also a useful example of a self-hosted app that needs package catalogs to capture both runtime behavior and social provenance. The executable is a file-listing/WebDAV server, but the reason many users look for it is the fork's trust story.

Timeline

• AList provided the original multi-storage file-listing and WebDAV application model.
• OpenList forked AList under the OpenList Team with AGPL-3.0 licensing and a stated goal of community-driven, long-term governance.
• OpenList documentation added migration guidance for AList V3 users and installation paths covering Docker, source builds, desktop, PaaS, and package-manager style installs.
• Homebrew added an `openlist` formula pointing to the OpenList documentation and GitHub upstream.

Related projects

• Related projects include AList, OpenList Frontend, OpenList desktop service components, WebDAV clients, cloud storage providers supported through AList/OpenList drivers, and packaging entries in Homebrew, Nix, Scoop, and Winget.

Sources

• https://doc.oplist.org/
• https://doc.oplist.org/guide
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openlist
• https://github.com/AlistGo/alist
• https://github.com/OpenListTeam
• https://github.com/OpenListTeam/OpenList