# csound mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für csound in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:csound
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install csound
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install csound
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: audio/csound/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install csound
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: csound from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#csound
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S csound
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: csound from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install csound
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: csound from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:csound
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/csound>
- **Version:** 6.18.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Sound and music computing system
- **Homepage:** <https://csound.com>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/csound/csound>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://csound.com>
- **Lizenz:** LGPL-2.1-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/csound/csound.git>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-08-02T01:55:36+09:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- atsa (cli)
- cs (cli)
- csanalyze (cli)
- csb64enc (cli)
- csbeats (cli)
- csdebugger (cli)
- csound (cli)
- cvanal (cli)
- dnoise (cli)
- envext (cli)
- extract (cli)
- extractor (cli)
- het_export (cli)
- het_import (cli)
- hetro (cli)
- lpanal (cli)
- lpc_export (cli)
- lpc_import (cli)
- makecsd (cli)
- mixer (cli)
- pv_export (cli)
- pv_import (cli)
- pvanal (cli)
- pvlook (cli)
- scale (cli)
- scot (cli)
- scsort (cli)
- sdif2ad (cli)
- sndinfo (cli)
- src_conv (cli)
- atsa (Alias)
- cs (Alias)
- csanalyze (Alias)
- csb64enc (Alias)
- csbeats (Alias)
- csdebugger (Alias)
- csound (Alias)
- cvanal (Alias)
- dnoise (Alias)
- envext (Alias)
- extract (Alias)
- extractor (Alias)
- het_export (Alias)
- het_import (Alias)
- hetro (Alias)
- lpanal (Alias)
- lpc_export (Alias)
- lpc_import (Alias)
- makecsd (Alias)
- mixer (Alias)
- pv_export (Alias)
- pv_import (Alias)
- pvanal (Alias)
- pvlook (Alias)
- scale (Alias)
- scot (Alias)
- scsort (Alias)
- sdif2ad (Alias)
- sndinfo (Alias)
- src_conv (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- faust
- fltk
- fluid-synth
- gettext
- hdf5
- jack
- lame
- liblo
- libpng
- libsamplerate
- libsndfile
- libwebsockets
- numpy
- openjdk
- openssl@3
- portaudio
- portmidi
- python@3.14
- stk
- wiiuse

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- asio
- cmake
- eigen
- swig

## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken

- curl

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Einschränkungen: To use the Java bindings, you may need to add to your shell profile e.g. ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc: export CLASSPATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/csound/libexec/csnd6.jar:." and link the native shared library into your Java Extensions folder: mkdir -p ~/Library/Java/Extensions ln -s "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/csound/libexec/lib_jcsound6.jnilib" ~/Library/Java/Extensions
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 6.18.1
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-08-02
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/csound/csound
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Csound is a long-running sound and music computing system with a command-line compiler, runtime, libraries, plugins, and a reference manual. Its packaging significance comes from bridging computer-music history with modern Unix, desktop, mobile, and web builds.

### Projektgeschichte

The official repository README identifies Csound as a sound and music computing system and says the repository contains the core Csound library, command-line frontend, and code for embedded, mobile, and web ports. The README credits contributors from musicians, scientists, and programmers around the world.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The canonical manual history says early Csound manuals started at MIT with Barry L. Vercoe and were maintained there through the 1980s and early 1990s, with material tracing back to Music11-era documents. It also records that MIT licensed Csound as LGPL in 2003, with the manual licensed GFDL and placed on SourceForge with the sources.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Official getting-started docs describe Csound as normally run from a command line or frontend, using .csd files that combine options, instruments, and score sections. The manual documents .csound6rc as a command-line parameter file read from HOME or the path in CSOUND6RC, then from the current directory with local options taking precedence.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Csound is package-heavy in the old Unix sense: one formula installs a main executable plus many analysis and conversion utilities, plugin search paths, a library API, and documentation. That makes packaging choices around paths, opcodes, examples, and frontends unusually visible to users.

### Zeitleiste

- 1980s: Early Csound manual work was started at MIT by Barry L. Vercoe.
- 1999: The official manual history mentions the version 4.16 reference manual.
- 2003: MIT licensed Csound as LGPL and placed sources on SourceForge with the GFDL manual.
- 2004: The Canonical Manual was converted to DocBook/XML.
- 2026: The Csound repository README describes 6.x as EOL and the develop branch as Csound 7.x beta.

### Related projects

- The manual history connects Csound documentation to Music11, and the getting-started docs describe frontends such as QuteCsound as part of common use.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/csound/csound#readme>
- <https://csound.com/docs/manual/PrefaceHistory.html>
- <https://csound.com/docs/manual/PrefaceGettingStarted.html>
- <https://csound.com/docs/manual/CommandUnifileParFile.html>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/csound>


## Sicherheitshinweise

escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** red / mittel
- escape, surveillance, or offensive capability 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: $CSOUND6RC, .csound6rc
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** csound
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 15
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Conflicts With:** libextractor
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - csound - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csound from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | powerful and versatile sound synthesis software | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - csound-data - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csound-data from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | data files used by the csound library | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - csound-soundfont - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csound-soundfont from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GM soundfont2 bank from csound | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - csound-utils - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csound-utils from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsnd-dev - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsnd-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | development files for Csound -- C++ API | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsnd6-6.0v5 - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsnd6-6.0v5 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C++ bindings for the Csound API | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsnd6-java - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsnd6-java from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Java bindings for the Csound API | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsound64-6.0 - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsound64-6.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | main library for Csound | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsound64-dev - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsound64-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | development files for Csound | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - libcsound64-doc - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcsound64-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Csound API documentation | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - liblua5.1-luacsnd - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liblua5.1-luacsnd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Lua bindings for the Csound API (transitional package) | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - lua-luacsnd6 - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: lua-luacsnd6 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Lua bindings for the Csound API | https://csound.github.io/
- Debian apt - python3-csound - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-csound from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python bindings for Csound | https://csound.github.io/
- Nix - csound: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cs/csound/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - csound - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-1ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: csound from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | powerful and versatile sound synthesis software | https://csound.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - csound-data - 1:6.18.1+dfsg-1ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: csound-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | data files used by the csound library | https://csound.github.io/


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/csound.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/csound.yml)


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- curated configuration and credential file locations
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- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
