# kerl mit Homebrew installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für kerl in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:kerl ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install kerl ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:kerl - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 4.4.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** MIT - **Quellarchiv:** - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - kerl (cli) - kerl (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 4.4.0 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/kerl/kerl - neueste erkannte Version: 4.4.0 (aktuell) - Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung kerl is a POSIX-shell tool for building, installing, activating, deploying, and managing Erlang/OTP installations from source. ### Projektgeschichte The kerl/kerl repository was created on GitHub on 2011-07-05. Its README describes a shell-agnostic tool whose direct dependencies are curl and git, excluding the system packages needed to compile Erlang/OTP itself. kerl's design centers on separating builds from installations: once a particular OTP release is built, the build can be installed quickly into one or more destinations and activated per shell session. ### Adoptionsgeschichte kerl became a durable part of Erlang and Elixir development because it solved the practical problem of compiling many OTP versions with different configure options. The asdf-erlang plugin explicitly says it relies on kerl for builds and combines kerl's compatibility/build scripts with asdf's version-switching UX. On 2026-07-01, GitHub API metadata reported 1,660 stars and 236 forks, and Homebrew metadata listed kerl 4.4.0. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users run kerl list releases, kerl build, kerl install, and shell activation scripts to work with specific Erlang/OTP versions. The README also documents building from the official Erlang/OTP GitHub tags, official Erlang downloads, or arbitrary Git refs and forks. In package-manager workflows, kerl is often the lower-level build engine beneath friendlier version managers, especially when macOS, Linux distro, OpenSSL, wxWidgets, or documentation-build quirks matter. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren kerl is significant because it is small shell code that encodes years of Erlang/OTP build knowledge. It sits between language-runtime packaging and developer version management, much like ruby-build or pyenv installers do for their ecosystems. ### Zeitleiste - 2011-07-05: kerl/kerl repository created on GitHub. - 2023-10-12: 4.0.0 release published. - 2025-06-19: 4.4.0 release published. - 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula metadata listed kerl 4.4.0. ### Related projects - Erlang/OTP is the runtime kerl builds and installs. - asdf-erlang relies on kerl for Erlang builds while adding asdf's .tool-versions workflow. - Homebrew packages kerl directly for macOS users. ### Quellen - - - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - 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: ~/.kerlrc ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** kerl - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [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. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [ruby-build](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ruby-build/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, cli, language-runtime, version-management, version-manager. - [ruby-install](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ruby-install/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, version-management. - [elan-init](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/elan-init/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, version-manager. - [erlang](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/erlang/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, otp. - [n](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/n/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, version-manager. - [plenv](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/plenv/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, version-manager. - [pyenv](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/pyenv/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, version-manager. - [abcl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abcl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/kerl.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/kerl.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph