# Install tenere with Homebrew, Nix

TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust. Version 0.11.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#tenere.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:tenere
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tenere
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tenere
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:tenere
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.11.3
- **Source summary:** TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pythops/tenere>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pythops/tenere>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T10:41:25-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- tenere (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.11.3
## Project history and usage

Tenere is a Rust terminal user interface for large-language-model chat. Its official README describes it as a TUI for LLMs with chat history, saved chats, Vim-style keybindings, clipboard support, and multiple backends.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in April 2023, during the first wave of small terminal clients built around hosted and local LLM APIs. The project presented itself as a terminal-first chat client rather than a general AI framework.

### Adoption history

Tenere's official installation instructions cover binary releases, crates.io, Nix, nix-on-droid, Homebrew, and source builds. That distribution pattern put it in front of Rust, Nix, and Homebrew users who wanted a small TUI wrapper for LLM backends.

### How it is used

Users run `tenere` to open an interactive chat interface and choose a backend such as ChatGPT, llama.cpp, or Ollama. The README documents API-key configuration through environment variables or the TOML config file for ChatGPT and llama.cpp, and URL/model configuration for local backends.

### Why package nerds care

For package-nerd audiences, Tenere is notable as a compact Rust CLI that tracks the shift from cloud-only ChatGPT use to mixed hosted and local LLM workflows. Its Homebrew, Nix, crates.io, and Android-via-Nix instructions make it a useful example of modern terminal AI tooling packaging.

### Timeline

- 2023-04-05: GitHub repository created.
- 2023-04-16: v0.1 release published.
- 2024: v0.10 and v0.11 releases published.
- 2025-09-01: v0.11.3 release published.

### Related projects

- The README names ChatGPT, llama.cpp, and Ollama as supported backends, placing Tenere among terminal clients that sit above API-compatible LLM servers.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/pythops/tenere>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/pythops/tenere/releases>
- <https://github.com/pythops/tenere#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

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



## 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

- Linux: ~/.config/tenere/config.toml, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tenere/config.toml
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/tenere/config.toml
- Windows: ~/AppData/Roaming/tenere/config.toml

## Credential files

- Linux: ~/.config/tenere/config.toml, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tenere/config.toml
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/tenere/config.toml
- Windows: ~/AppData/Roaming/tenere/config.toml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - tenere: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/tenere/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/tenere.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/tenere.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