# icemon mit Homebrew, dnf, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für icemon in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:icemon
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install icemon
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install icemon
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icemon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

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

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:icemon
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/icemon>
- **Version:** 3.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Icecream GUI Monitor
- **Homepage:** <https://kfunk.org/tag/icemon/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/icecc/icemon>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/icecc/icemon>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/icecc/icemon/archive/refs/tags/v3.3.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- icemon (cli)
- icemon (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- icecream
- libarchive
- lzo
- qtbase
- zstd

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- cmake
- extra-cmake-modules
- pkgconf
- sphinx-doc

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 3.3
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/icecc/icemon
- neueste erkannte Version: v3.3 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

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.

### Projektgeschichte

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.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

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.

### Wie es verwendet wird

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.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

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.

### Zeitleiste

- 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.

### Quellen

- <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/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** icemon
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 1
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- 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 - 3.3-18.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icemon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Icecream GUI monitor | https://kfunk.org/tag/icemon/


## Verwandte Links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider.
- [icecream](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/icecream/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [libarchive](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/libarchive/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [qtbase](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/qtbase/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [zstd](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/zstd/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [sphinx-doc](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/sphinx-doc/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [asitop](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/asitop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [collectd](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/collectd/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [ctop](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ctop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [duf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/duf/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [dwatch](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/dwatch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [gotop](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/gotop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [htop](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/htop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [hwatch](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/hwatch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system.
- [netdata](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/netdata/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, monitoring, system, zstd.
- [mactop](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mactop/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, monitor, monitoring, system.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/icemon.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/icemon.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph