# 使用 Homebrew, apk, Nix, zypper, winget 安装 iamb 查看 iamb 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:iamb ``` 其他安装命令: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install iamb ``` 证据: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add iamb ``` 证据: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: iamb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#iamb ``` 证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ia/iamb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install iamb ``` 证据: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: iamb from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id ulyssa.iamb -e ``` 证据: Windows Package Manager source index: ulyssa.iamb from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## 软件包事实 - **软件包键:** brew:iamb - **软件包管理器:** Homebrew - **版本:** 0.0.11 - **来源摘要:** Matrix client for Vim addicts - **主页:** - **仓库:** - **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## 可执行文件 - iamb (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: 0.0.11 ## 项目历史与用法 iamb is a terminal Matrix client built for people who want Vim-like editing, window navigation, and chat management. Its package-manager identity is a modern Rust TUI application: a chat client that belongs in terminals, dotfiles, and distribution package indexes rather than only in app stores. ### 项目历史 The GitHub repository was created on August 25, 2021. The public origin issue, opened on December 30, 2022, states the goal plainly: a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings for editing messages and managing windows. The documentation describes iamb as a terminal-based Matrix client for Vim users, with features including threads, spaces, end-to-end encryption, read receipts, image previews, notifications, room management, message editing and redaction, custom keybindings, and multiple profiles. It also notes that much of the Vim emulation comes from the author's modalkit crate. The release stream visible on GitHub begins with v0.0.7 in March 2023 and includes v0.0.8 in July 2023, v0.0.9 in March 2024, v0.0.10 in August 2024, and v0.0.11 in January 2026. ### 采用历史 iamb's adoption follows the route of Rust terminal applications: crates.io installation, source builds with Cargo, and distribution packages. The README lists package-manager installation paths for Arch AUR, FreeBSD, Gentoo GURU, Homebrew, NetBSD, Nix/NixOS, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Snap. Homebrew packages iamb as a Matrix client for Vim addicts and records Rust and pkgconf as build-time dependencies. Repository metadata showed more than a thousand stars by 2026, consistent with a recognizable terminal-chat niche. ### 使用方式 Users configure iamb with a TOML file under the XDG config directory, defining profiles with Matrix user IDs and optional homeserver URLs. The application is then used as an interactive terminal client for rooms, direct messages, spaces, invitations, message sending, editing, reactions, and navigation. Its strongest usage pattern is keyboard-first chat for users who already expect Vim motions and split/window metaphors. The feature set also makes it interesting for terminal environments that support richer image protocols such as sixel, Kitty, or iTerm2. ### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心 Package nerds care about iamb because it is a good example of the newer Rust TUI packaging wave: a networked end-user app, not only a developer utility, distributed through Cargo and several operating-system package managers. Its PACKAGING.md also gives maintainers explicit guidance about system SQLite/TLS linking, LTO, desktop metadata, icons, examples, and man pages, which is exactly the sort of upstream packaging surface that makes distribution maintainers' lives easier. ### 时间线 - 2021: GitHub repository created. - 2022: Origin issue opened for a Vim-keybinding Matrix terminal client. - 2023: v0.0.7 and v0.0.8 releases published. - 2024: v0.0.10 added features including direct-message room marking, external editor suffix configuration, notification controls, alias commands, and packaging metadata work. - 2026: v0.0.11 release published; Homebrew packaged iamb as a Rust-built Matrix terminal client. ### Related projects - iamb is built around Matrix and relates to the Matrix Rust SDK ecosystem. - modalkit supplies much of its Vim-style editing and window-management behavior; terminal UI and image-preview dependencies are part of the surrounding Rust TUI ecosystem. ### 来源 - - - - - - ## 安全说明 broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger 风险:** blue / 中 - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## 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: ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/iamb/config.toml ## 其他软件包管理器记录 - Nix - iamb: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ia/iamb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - iamb - 0.0.11-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: iamb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Rust Matrix chat client with Vim keybindings | https://iamb.chat/ - apk - iamb-doc - 0.0.11-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: iamb-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Rust Matrix chat client with Vim keybindings (documentation) | https://iamb.chat/ - zypper - iamb - 0.0.10-2.7: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: iamb from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A Matrix client for Vim addicts | https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb - winget - ulyssa.iamb: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: ulyssa.iamb from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/iamb.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/iamb.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