# 使用 Homebrew, apt, Nix, scoop, winget 安装 dotter

查看 dotter 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:dotter
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dotter
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install dotter
```

  证据: Debian stable package indexes: dotter from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#dotter
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/dotter
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id SuperCuber.Dotter -e
```

  证据: Windows Package Manager source index: SuperCuber.Dotter from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:dotter
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 0.13.5
- **来源摘要:** Dotfile manager and templater written in rust
- **主页:** <https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter>
- **最后更新:** 2026-07-13T21:14:05Z
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- dotter (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 0.13.5
## 项目历史与用法

dotter is a Rust dotfile manager and templater for users who keep their shell, editor, desktop, and application configuration in a version-controlled dotfiles repository. It packages the common symlink-farm workflow into a single CLI with package selection, templating, deployment, undeployment, and watch modes.

### 项目历史

The public GitHub repository was created in May 2017 and describes Dotter as a response to the friction of managing many dotfiles by hand: tracking what links where, bootstrapping a new machine, and handling per-machine differences. Its default configuration names, `.dotter/global.toml` and `.dotter/local.toml`, reflect that split between shared packages and local machine choices.

Dotter's history sits in the post-chezmoi, post-rcm era of dotfile tooling, where users wanted more than raw symlinks but less than a full configuration-management system. Its use of Rust, TOML, and Handlebars-style templating made it attractive to package-manager users who prefer a small static CLI for personal environment reproducibility.

### 采用历史

The official README documents installation through Homebrew, Scoop, Cargo, AUR packages, and release binaries. The repository API shows continuing maintenance through releases such as v0.13.4 in 2025 and activity into 2026, while Homebrew packaging gives macOS users the familiar `brew install dotter` path.

Dotter has remained a niche but visible dotfiles tool rather than a platform. Its adoption is mostly among terminal-heavy users who keep dotfiles in Git and want templated deployment without pulling in a general-purpose automation stack.

### 使用方式

Dotter is run from inside a dotfiles repository. Users declare packages and target paths, select machine-local packages in local configuration, then run `dotter` or `dotter deploy` to create symlinks or render templates to their target locations.

The CLI also supports `init`, `watch`, `undeploy`, shell completion generation, dry runs, verbose diffs, force overwrites, pre/post deploy hooks, and cache paths. Those options make it scriptable enough for package bootstrap flows while still being centered on personal configuration files.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

For package nerds, Dotter is another specimen in the dotfiles-manager family: opinionated enough to encode host-specific deployment, but small enough to ship as one Rust executable across Homebrew, Scoop, Cargo, and distro channels.

It is significant less because it invented dotfile management and more because it captures a durable packaging pattern: a personal-environment tool whose real value is reproducible state, boring config files, and easy installability on a freshly provisioned machine.

### 时间线

- 2017: Public GitHub repository created for SuperCuber/dotter.
- 2023: Dotter 0.13.0 release line begins.
- 2024: v0.13.3 release continues the 0.13 series.
- 2025: v0.13.4 is published.
- 2026: Repository activity continues on GitHub.

### Related projects

- GNU Stow and rcm represent older symlink-oriented dotfile workflows that Dotter automates more explicitly.
- chezmoi and yadm are adjacent dotfile managers with broader feature sets and different opinions about templating, secrets, and host state.
- Homebrew, Scoop, Cargo, and AUR are important distribution paths because dotfile managers are often installed early in a machine bootstrap.

### 来源

- <https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter>
- <https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter/wiki>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/SuperCuber/dotter>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/SuperCuber/dotter/releases?per_page=5>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dotter>


## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- 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: .dotter/global.toml, .dotter/local.toml
## 其他软件包管理器记录

- Debian apt - dotter - 4.44.1+dfsg-7.1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: dotter from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | detailed comparison of two genomic sequences | https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools
- Nix - dotter: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/do/dotter/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - dotter - 4.44.1+dfsg-7.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dotter from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | detailed comparison of two genomic sequences | https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools
- Scoop - main/dotter: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/dotter.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - SuperCuber.Dotter: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: SuperCuber.Dotter from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## 来源

- 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