# 使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 livekit 查看 livekit 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:livekit ``` 其他安装命令: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install livekit ``` 证据: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#livekit ``` 证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/livekit/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:livekit - **软件包管理器:** Homebrew - **版本:** 1.13.5 - **来源摘要:** Scalable, high-performance WebRTC server - **主页:** - **仓库:** - **最后更新:** 2026-07-31T09:50:18Z - **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## 可执行文件 - livekit-server (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: 1.13.5 ## 项目历史与用法 LiveKit is an open source realtime communications stack centered on a Go WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit. It began as infrastructure for scalable audio and video applications and evolved into a platform for voice, video, and physical AI agents while keeping the server and SDK ecosystem open source. ### 项目历史 The livekit/livekit repository was created on September 30, 2020. LiveKit was publicly introduced on July 7, 2021 as free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling realtime audio and video experiences, with its SFU built on Pion WebRTC. The early project positioned itself against proprietary realtime communications services and hard-to-operate open source alternatives by providing a polished, deployable WebRTC stack with server, SDKs, documentation, and load-testing tools. Later documentation describes LiveKit as an open source framework and cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents, with the server supplying low-latency transport, routing, synchronization, and session management. ### 采用历史 LiveKit's adoption accelerated with the demand for embedded realtime communication after 2020. In June 2024, the company wrote that LiveKit was used by more than 20,000 developers and listed uses ranging from AI assistants and emergency dispatch to drones, vehicles, security devices, and surgical robots. The GitHub repository's package-culture footprint is large for a media server: by July 1, 2026 GitHub metadata showed roughly 19.5k stars and 2.1k forks, while the repository listed dozens of releases and a broad SDK ecosystem. ### 使用方式 The Homebrew package installs the LiveKit media server executable. The README documents starting it in development mode with livekit-server --dev, where it uses placeholder API credentials, and points production users toward deployment documentation and explicit configuration. LiveKit is used as the realtime backbone for browser, mobile, backend, telephony, and agent applications. It handles WebRTC signaling, NAT traversal, RTP routing, adaptive degradation, and quality-of-service controls, while related SDKs expose client and server APIs. ### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心 For package nerds, livekit is interesting because it packages a serious realtime media server as a local developer binary. Installing it from Homebrew gives developers a quick path to running a WebRTC SFU without first deploying Kubernetes or buying a managed communications account. It is also part of the broader pattern of open source infrastructure projects that ship a local server, a cloud service, SDKs, and a CLI under one brand, making the package-manager formula one entry point into a much larger platform. ### 时间线 - 2020-09-30: The livekit/livekit GitHub repository was created. - 2021-07-07: LiveKit was publicly introduced as open source realtime audio/video infrastructure. - 2024-06-04: LiveKit reported more than 20,000 developers using the platform. - 2026-06-27: The GitHub repository listed v1.13.2 as a release. - 2026-07-01: GitHub metadata showed about 19.5k stars and 2.1k forks for livekit/livekit. ### Related projects - Related projects include Pion WebRTC, LiveKit CLI, LiveKit Cloud, LiveKit Agents, LiveKit client SDKs, server SDKs, egress, ingress, SIP, WebRTC, and SFU-based media infrastructure. ### 来源 - - - - - ## 安全说明 没有找到 livekit 的匹配本地密钥处理 manifest。Nucleus 软件包元数据仍在此发布，以便未来覆盖拥有稳定的软件包 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 - Unix: file supplied with --config ## Credential files - Unix: file supplied with --config ## 其他软件包管理器记录 - Nix - livekit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/livekit/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/livekit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/livekit.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