# somagic-tools mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:somagic-tools
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install somagic-tools
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:somagic-tools
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/somagic-tools>
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Tools to extract firmware from EasyCAP
- **Homepage:** <https://code.google.com/archive/p/easycap-somagic-linux/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://code.google.com/archive/p/easycap-somagic-linux/>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/easycap-somagic-linux/somagic-easycap-tools_1.1.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- somagic-extract-firmware (cli)
- somagic-extract-firmware (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- libgcrypt
- libusb

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 1.1
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://code.google.com/archive/p/easycap-somagic-linux/
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

somagic-tools is the firmware-extraction companion for the archived easycap-somagic-linux project. Its main command, `somagic-extract-firmware`, extracts Somagic EasyCAP firmware from a Windows driver file so Linux capture tools can initialize the USB video device.

### Projektgeschichte

The source tarball for somagic-easycap-tools 1.0 records an initial release on 24 February 2012, followed by version 1.1 on 10 March 2013 with a new verbose option. The README and man page describe a deliberately small utility: search a Windows driver file, verify the CRC32 signature, and write `/lib/firmware/somagic_firmware.bin` by default.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The project lived in Google Code and is now available through the Google Code Archive. Homebrew packages `somagic-tools` as a separate formula because the firmware extraction step is useful before running the companion `somagic` capture program; formula analytics show low but continuing niche use.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users obtain the Windows driver from the EasyCAP installation CD, often through Windows or Wine, then run `somagic-extract-firmware` on the driver file. The output firmware file is consumed by `somagic-init`, separating firmware extraction from actual capture.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

This is the kind of tiny hardware-enablement utility package managers preserve well: one command, a legal/technical firmware boundary, and a dependency relationship that keeps the capture package from embedding vendor firmware.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012: somagic-easycap-tools 1.0 initial release.
- 2013: somagic-easycap-tools 1.1 adds verbose output.
- Current: Homebrew packages version 1.1 as `somagic-tools`.

### Related projects

- `somagic` consumes the extracted firmware and performs capture.
- The toolchain targets Somagic variants of EasyCAP USB video capture devices.
- libgcrypt is used by the tools package.

### Quellen

- <https://code.google.com/archive/p/easycap-somagic-linux>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/somagic-tools.json>
- <https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/easycap-somagic-linux/somagic-easycap-tools_1.1.tar.gz>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für somagic-tools wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

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


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- [libgcrypt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libgcrypt/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [somagic](https://pkg.so/de/brew/somagic/) - Popular package that depends on this formula.
- [libgphoto2](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libgphoto2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, usb.
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## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
