# Installer conserver avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de conserver pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:conserver
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install conserver
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add conserver
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: conserver from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install conserver-client
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: conserver-client from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install conserver
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: conserver 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#conserver
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install gnome-console
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gnome-console from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:conserver
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/conserver>
- **Version:** 8.3.0
- **Résumé source:** Allows multiple users to watch a serial console at the same time
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.conserver.com/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/bstansell/conserver>
- **Docs amont:** <https://conserver.com/>
- **Licence:** BSD-3-Clause
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/bstansell/conserver/releases/download/v8.3.0/conserver-8.3.0.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## exécutables

- conserver (cli)
- console (cli)
- conserver (alias)
- console (alias)

## Dépendances

- openssl@3

## Bibliothèques fournies par macOS

- krb5
- libxcrypt

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 8.3.0
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/bstansell/conserver
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

Conserver is a console-server daemon and client for shared serial-console access, logging, and remote operations. It belongs to the older system-administration world of terminal servers, crash consoles, out-of-band access, and forensic console logs.

### Historique du projet

The official site defines Conserver as an application that lets multiple users watch a serial console at the same time, log traffic, grant one writer at a time, and access equipment over the network. The conserver(8) manual describes the daemon, console client, logging, access control, authentication, and multi-server redirection model.

The CHANGES file shows a long pre-GitHub lineage. It notes many poorly tracked variations before version 6.05, a public web page by version 6.10 in January 1999, GNU configure-based packaging in version 7.0.0 in February 2001, and continued maintenance through version 8.3.0 in February 2026.

### Historique d'adoption

Conserver's adoption is tied to data-center operations rather than consumer CLI fashion. The official site emphasizes reviewing crashes, tracking console changes, feeding console logs into monitoring, mentoring during live work, and reaching equipment remotely.

Input package metadata lists Conserver across Homebrew, apk, Debian/Ubuntu client packages, Fedora/dnf, Nix, and other distributions, which fits its role as durable sysadmin infrastructure.

### Modes d'utilisation

Operators run conserver as a daemon, configure consoles in conserver.cf, authenticate through conserver.passwd, and use the console client to attach, watch, take write access, replay logs, or coordinate with other users.

The manual documents local serial ports, Unix domain sockets, TCP sockets for terminal servers, and external programs as console connection types.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Conserver is package-nerd archaeology that still earns its keep. It packages a very specific operational workflow: serial-console multiplexing and logging for machines that may be unreachable by SSH or normal network services.

Its CHANGES file is also a history of portability work: Solaris, BSD, Linux, Cygwin, IPv6, OpenSSL, GSS-API, FreeBSD CI, autoconf updates, and downstream packaging fixes appear across decades.

### Chronologie

- Before 1999: CHANGES records many pre-6.05 variations with limited tracking.
- 1999: Version 6.10 notes that the web page was up and running.
- 2001: Version 7.0.0 introduces GNU configure-based packaging.
- 2018: Version 8.2.2 notes documentation adjustments after the move to GitHub.
- 2026: Version 8.3.0 is released with fixes and packaging/build updates.

### Related projects

- Terminal servers, serial consoles, IPMI serial-over-LAN, OpenSSL, tcp-wrappers, PAM, and GSS-API are adjacent operational technologies documented in the manual and CHANGES file.

### Sources

- <https://conserver.com/>
- <https://conserver.com/docs/conserver.man.html>
- <https://github.com/bstansell/conserver/blob/master/CHANGES>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## 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: /etc/conserver.cf, /etc/console.cf, ~/.consolerc

## Credential files

- Unix: /etc/conserver.passwd
## Détails de la base source

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

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - conserver-client - 8.2.7-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: conserver-client from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | connect to a console server | https://www.conserver.com/
- Debian apt - conserver-server - 8.2.7-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: conserver-server from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | connect multiple user to a serial console with logging | https://www.conserver.com/
- Nix - conserver: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/conserver/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - conserver-client - 8.2.7-2build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: conserver-client from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | connect to a console server | https://www.conserver.com/
- Ubuntu apt - conserver-server - 8.2.7-2build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: conserver-server from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | connect multiple user to a serial console with logging | https://www.conserver.com/
- apk - conserver - 8.3.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: conserver from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Serial console remote sharing and logging daemon | https://www.conserver.com
- apk - conserver-doc - 8.3.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: conserver-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Serial console remote sharing and logging daemon (documentation) | https://www.conserver.com
- apk - conserver-openrc - 8.3.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: conserver-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Serial console remote sharing and logging daemon (OpenRC init scripts) | https://www.conserver.com
- dnf - conserver - 8.3.0-1.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: conserver from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Serial console server daemon/client | https://www.conserver.com
- dnf - conserver-client - 8.3.0-1.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: conserver-client from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Serial console client | https://www.conserver.com
- zypper - gnome-console - 50.0-1.2: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gnome-console from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | A minimal terminal for GNOME | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console


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## Combined YAML source

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


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