# 使用 Homebrew, dnf, Nix 安装 icemon

查看 icemon 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:icemon
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install icemon
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install icemon
```

  证据: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icemon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#icemon
```

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

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:icemon
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 3.4
- **来源摘要:** Icecream GUI Monitor
- **主页:** <https://kfunk.org/tag/icemon/>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/icecc/icemon>
- **最后更新:** 2026-07-31T22:09:49Z
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- icemon (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: 3.4
## 项目历史与用法

Icemon is the graphical monitor for Icecream compile networks. It is a companion package rather than a compiler tool: it visualizes scheduler and daemon activity so users can see how an Icecream cluster is distributing build work.

### 项目历史

The repository describes Icemon as an Icecream GUI monitor and lists Kevin Funk as maintainer. The project is closely tied to Icecream packaging because its build instructions require the Icecream development package and its purpose is to observe an Icecream network.

Maintainer posts show the 3.x series becoming public in 2015, followed by bug-fix and minor releases in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The GitHub repository records a 3.3 release in 2019.

### 采用历史

Icemon's adoption follows Icecream's adoption: users install it when they need a live visual overview of a compile cluster rather than only logs or scheduler status. The Icecream README recommends installing Icemon or icecream-sundae with Icecream.

The package is niche but useful in distribution workflows because it gives an immediate picture of which machines are compiling, idle, or unreachable.

### 使用方式

After installing the Icecream development pieces and Qt/CMake build dependencies, users run `icemon` to connect to an Icecream scheduler and display compile-network activity.

It is most useful while tuning a local network build setup, checking whether workers are discovered, or explaining why a distributed build is not using expected hosts.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Icemon is package-nerd significant as a small observability sidecar for a build accelerator. It is not essential to compile with Icecream, but it makes the invisible scheduler/daemon traffic legible.

Its separate package identity also shows a common Unix packaging pattern: keep the daemon/client tools in one package and the graphical monitor in another.

### 时间线

- 2015: Icemon 3.0 was announced publicly by maintainer Kevin Funk.
- 2016: Icemon 3.0.1 followed as a patch release.
- 2017: Icemon 3.1.0 added bug fixes and small feature work.
- 2018: Icemon 3.2.0 addressed scheduler discovery problems with newer Icecream releases.
- 2019: The GitHub repository lists release 3.3.

### Related projects

- Icecream is the distributed compiler system that Icemon monitors.
- icecream-sundae is a command-line monitor alternative referenced by Icecream documentation.
- distcc is the older distributed-compilation project behind Icecream's lineage.

### 来源

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/icemon>
- <https://github.com/icecc/icecream>
- <https://github.com/icecc/icemon>
- <https://github.com/icecc/icemon/releases>
- <https://kfunk.org/tag/icemon/>


## 安全说明

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## 其他软件包管理器记录

- Nix - icemon: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ic/icemon/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - icemon - 3.3-20.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icemon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Icecream GUI monitor | https://kfunk.org/tag/icemon/


## Combined YAML source

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


## 来源

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