macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install incuslocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install incusMacPorts ports tree · net/incus/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install incus with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, winget, zypper
CLI client for interacting with Incus. Version 7.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-26.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add incusAlpine Linux edge package indexes · incus · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install golang-github-lxc-incus-devDebian stable package indexes · golang-github-lxc-incus-dev · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install incusFedora Rawhide package metadata · incus · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#incusnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/in/incus/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S incusArch Linux sync databases · incus · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install incusopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · incus · source: download.opensuse.org
Windows
Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id LinuxContainers.Incus -eWindows Package Manager source index · LinuxContainers.Incus · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com
overview
Package summary
CLI client for interacting with Incus
Project links
Commands and aliases
- incus
history
Project history and usage
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager from the Linux Containers community. It packages the LXD-style private-cloud workflow under the incus CLI: images, instances, profiles, storage, networking, clustering, and a REST API for running full Linux systems in containers or virtual machines.
Project history
Incus began in 2023 as a community fork of Canonical LXD after LXD moved away from the Linux Containers community. The Incus README says the project was adopted by Linux Containers, is maintained by the same developer team that first created LXD, and remains Apache-2.0 without a contributor license agreement.
The first Incus release was 0.1 on October 7, 2023. The release announcement described it as close to LXD 5.18 while using the fork point to remove or rename legacy interfaces, drop features tied to Canonical-specific infrastructure, switch the guest API from /dev/lxd to /dev/incus, and introduce cleaner CLI flows such as incus snapshot and incus admin.
Incus also inherited the broader Linux Containers ecosystem: LXC for system containers, image distribution through the Linux Containers infrastructure, clustering concepts from LXD, and Cowsql as the community fork of Dqlite used for replicated state.
Adoption history
Incus adoption followed a migration path from LXD: users who wanted the Linux Containers governance model could keep a familiar API and CLI shape while moving to the incus command and renamed daemon. The README emphasizes usage from a single host to a full rack-scale cluster, and Homebrew metadata in the input shows packages across Homebrew, Alpine, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, openSUSE, Debian/Ubuntu development packages, and Windows winget.
How it is used
Users run incus to create and manage instances, images, networks, storage pools, profiles, projects, clusters, snapshots, and remotes. The tool is especially common where operators want VM-like full-system environments with container density, or a local private-cloud control plane for development labs, CI workers, and small infrastructure clusters.
Why package nerds care
Incus matters to package people because it is both a package and an ecosystem boundary marker: the package name, binary name, guest device path, config path, service name, and migration story all reflect the LXD-to-Incus governance split. It is also a good example of why package managers preserve community forks quickly when upstream ownership or distribution assumptions change.
For Homebrew specifically, incus is notable because the formula delivers the client-side tool for a Linux-first infrastructure project to macOS users, where the CLI can still manage remote Incus servers.
Timeline
- 2023: Incus repository created under the lxc GitHub organization.
- 2023: Incus 0.1 released as a community fork roughly equivalent to LXD 5.18.
- 2024: Incus 6.0 LTS established a long-term-support line.
- 2026: Incus 7.0 LTS and 7.x releases continued the post-fork release train.
Related projects
- LXD is the direct upstream lineage. LXC remains the low-level container technology in the same Linux Containers family. Cowsql is the community fork of Dqlite used by Incus for clustered database state. Zabbly provides commercial packaging support referenced by the Incus README.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:client
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/incus/config.yml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
incus | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version7.2
manager updated2026-06-26
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://linuxcontainers.org/incusnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:incus |
|---|---|
| Version | 7.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/incus |
| Homepage | https://linuxcontainers.org/incus |
| Repository | https://github.com/lxc/incus |
| Upstream docs | https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/incus/incus-7.2.tar.xz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-26T11:02:49Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Build dependencies | go |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | incus |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
golang-github-lxc-incus-dev 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - library
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install golang-github-lxc-incus-dev- Section: golang
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: incus
- 32 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Debian apt95%
incus 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - daemon
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- 5 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Debian apt95%
incus-agent 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Incus guest agent
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-agent- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Debian apt95%
incus-base 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - daemon (container-only)
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-base- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 25 dependencies
- 9 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Debian apt95%
incus-client 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - client
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-client- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 1 dependencies
- 3 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Debian apt95%
incus-extra 6.0.4-2+deb13u7
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - extra tools
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-extra- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Nix95%
incus
nix profile install nixpkgs#incus- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
golang-github-lxc-incus-dev 6.0.0-1
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - library
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install golang-github-lxc-incus-dev- Section: universe/golang
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: incus
- 32 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
incus 6.0.0-1
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - daemon
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus- Section: universe/admin
- Architecture: amd64
- 23 dependencies
- 9 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
incus-agent 6.0.0-1
Incus guest agent
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-agent- Section: universe/admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
incus-client 6.0.0-1
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - client
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-client- Section: universe/admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 1 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
incus-migrate 6.0.0-1
Incus physical to instance migration tool
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-migrate- Section: universe/admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
Ubuntu apt95%
incus-tools 6.0.0-1
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - extra tools
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
sudo apt install incus-tools- Section: universe/admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: incus
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
apk95%
incus 7.0.0-r3
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
sudo apk add incus- License: Apache-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: incus
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
apk95%
incus-vm 7.0.0-r3
Install packages required to run VMs under Incus
sudo apk add incus-vm- License: Apache-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: incus
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
dnf95%
incus 6.23-3.fc45
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus
sudo dnf install incus- License: Apache-2.0
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: incus
- 26 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Incus
source trail
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- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment