# Install modman with Homebrew Module deployment script geared towards Magento development. Version 1.14 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:modman ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install modman ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:modman - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.14 - **Source summary:** Module deployment script geared towards Magento development - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - modman (cli) - modman (alias) ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.14 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman - Upstream latest detected: 1.14 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## Project history and usage modman, short for Module Manager, is a Bash deployment script by Colin Mollenhour, copyrighted from 2009 and strongly associated with Magento extension development. Its README explains the original pain point: some software, especially Magento, forced extension files to be interleaved through core application directories, making version control and deployment awkward. modman answered that by keeping each module checked out under `.modman` and maintaining symlinks into the target tree according to a mapping file. ### Project history In practice, modman became a small Unixy tool for Magento developers who wanted separate repositories for extensions before Composer became the dominant PHP packaging path. It supports Git and Subversion checkouts, a deploy command for already-checked-out code, and a plain text mapping file rather than a package registry. Community Magento posts and extension READMEs used it as an installation path, and a 2015 Magento 2 development article identified Colin Mollenhour as its creator and described the ability to attach multiple local repositories to a Magento project as its key feature. ### How it is used The Homebrew formula packages the `modman` executable for macOS and Linux users. Its niche is historical but still legible: it is not a general package manager so much as a symlink-based module layout tool for codebases that predate cleaner extension packaging. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** modman - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [deployer](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/deployer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools, php. - [doubledown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/doubledown/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [fabric](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fabric/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [git-ftp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-ftp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [kamal-proxy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kamal-proxy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [kapp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kapp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [kargo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kargo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [netlify-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/netlify-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools. - [expo-module-scripts](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/expo-module-scripts/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. 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