# Install sidekick with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Deploy applications to your VPS. Version 0.6.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#sidekick.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:sidekick
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sidekick
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install sidekick
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#sidekick
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:sidekick
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.6
- **Source summary:** Deploy applications to your VPS
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/MightyMoud/sidekick>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/MightyMoud/sidekick>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T04:03:40+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- sidekick (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.6

## 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: sidekick.yml

## Credential files

- Unix: .env, encrypted.env
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - sidekick: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/si/sidekick/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - sidekick: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/sidekick/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph