macOS
brew install nicotine-pluslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install nicotine-plusMacPorts ports tree · www/nicotine-plus/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für nicotine-plus in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install nicotine-pluslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install nicotine-plusMacPorts ports tree · www/nicotine-plus/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apk add nicotine-plusAlpine Linux edge package indexes · nicotine-plus · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#nicotine-plusnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ni/nicotine-plus/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apt install nicotineDebian stable package indexes · nicotine · Quelle: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install nicotine+Fedora Rawhide package metadata · nicotine+ · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
sudo pacman -S nicotine+Arch Linux sync databases · nicotine+ · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
scoop install extras/nicotine-plusScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/nicotine-plus.json · Quelle: api.github.com
winget install --id Nicotine+.Nicotine+ -eWindows Package Manager source index · Nicotine+.Nicotine+ · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com
Überblick
Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
Verlauf
Nicotine+ is a graphical GTK client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. The project presents itself as a free, open source, Python-based client for sharing files, chatting, and interoperating with other Soulseek clients.
The project lineage reaches back to PySoulSeek and Nicotine: the official development notes say Nicotine+ was originally based on backend code from PySoulSeek, which started in 2001, and that Nicotine chose GTK after PySoulSeek had used wxPython. The Nicotine+ homepage credits Nicotine+, Nicotine, and PySoulSeek contributors across 2001-2026, and also preserves the former Nicotine maintainer's 2003 explanation of the name.
Nicotine+ has stayed alive largely by being conservative about portability and dependencies. Its development guide says the client aims to run on almost any system, prefers standard-library functionality where possible, and maintains an unofficial Soulseek protocol document because the Soulseek protocol is proprietary and undocumented by the official service.
Adoption is strongest in the package-manager sense rather than the commercial ecosystem sense. The official downloads page lists packages for Alpine, Arch, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Guix, Haiku, NixOS, OpenBSD, Void, Flatpak, Snap, Chocolatey, Scoop, Winget, Homebrew, and others. GitHub showed roughly 3,000 stars and 183 forks when researched on July 1, 2026.
Homebrew's formula API reported 1,363 installs over 365 days, 322 over 90 days, and 113 over 30 days when queried on July 1, 2026. That makes it a modest but real desktop-app formula, especially for a P2P client with official macOS installers outside Homebrew.
Users install Nicotine+ when they want a native open-source Soulseek client instead of the official SoulseekQt client. Practical usage is GUI-driven: search the Soulseek network, browse users, manage shares and downloads, chat, and tune connection/transfer behavior.
Package nerd usage is mostly about distribution fit: Nicotine+ is a Python/GTK desktop app with many downstream packages, release assets for Windows and macOS, Flatpak/Snap builds, PyPI fallback installation, and distro-sensitive dependency choices.
Nicotine+ is notable because it is one of the long-lived open-source clients for a proprietary P2P protocol. Its packaging footprint is broad, and the project explicitly designs for packagers and older platforms instead of treating source builds as an afterthought.
Sicherheitslage
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
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local files
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Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\nicotineExecutables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
nicotine | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
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Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:nicotine-plus |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.3.10 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nicotine-plus |
| Homepage | https://nicotine-plus.org |
| Repository | https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://nicotine-plus.org/doc/DEVELOPING.html |
| Lizenz | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bb/91/b7d2f353828d1bc57bb43cfe9006b0fde4d6ffe1458d5045c58f567ed33a/nicotine_plus-3.3.10.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | adwaita-icon-theme, gtk4, libadwaita, py3cairo, pygobject3, python@3.14 |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf all) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | nicotine-plus |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Conflicts With |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
nicotine-plus
nix profile install nixpkgs#nicotine-plusnicotine-plus 3.3.10-r1
Graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system
https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus
sudo apk add nicotine-plusnicotine-plus-doc 3.3.10-r1
Graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system (documentation)
https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus
sudo apk add nicotine-plus-docnicotine-plus-lang 3.3.10-r1
Languages for package nicotine-plus
https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus
sudo apk add nicotine-plus-langnicotine-plus-pyc 3.3.10-r1
Precompiled Python bytecode for nicotine-plus
https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus
sudo apk add nicotine-plus-pycnicotine-plus
sudo port install nicotine-plusextras/nicotine-plus
scoop install extras/nicotine-plusnicotine 3.3.10-1
graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
sudo apt install nicotinenicotine 3.2.9-2
graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
sudo apt install nicotinenicotine+ 3.3.10-7.fc45
A graphical client for Soulseek
https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus/
sudo dnf install nicotine+nicotine+ 3.3.10-2
Soulseek music-sharing client, written in python
https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus
sudo pacman -S nicotine+Nicotine+.Nicotine+
winget install --id Nicotine+.Nicotine+ -eQuellspur
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