# binocle mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:binocle
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install binocle
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install binocle
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#binocle
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S binocle
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:binocle
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Graphical tool to visualize binary data
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- binocle (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

binocle is a graphical binary-data visualizer that maps bytes to pixels so users can spot structure, image-like regions, and suspicious or interesting areas in large files.

### Projektgeschichte

The sharkdp/binocle repository was created in September 2021, with v0.1.0 released in October 2021. Its README explains the central idea: colorize bytes by rule and render them in a rectangular grid with controls for offset, stride, width, and colorization mode.

The README includes examples for ELF binaries, memory dumps, Doom assets, and perf samples, and explicitly lists related visual binary-analysis projects.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

binocle is packaged beyond Cargo: the supplied package facts list Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Arch, and the README documents release binaries, a Debian package, Arch installation, and cargo install.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users open a file in the GUI, adjust offset, stride, grid width, and colorization parameters, and visually inspect regions that would be tedious to interpret from a plain hex dump.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

binocle is interesting because it packages binary archaeology as a visual workflow. It does not replace readelf or objdump; it helps decide where to look before switching to lower-level tools.

### Zeitleiste

- 2021: GitHub repository is created.
- 2021: v0.1.0 release and crates.io publication.
- 2023: v0.3.2 release.

### Related projects

- The README lists related work including binvis.io, cantor.dust, veles, and hobbits, alongside academic work on visual binary fragment types.

### Quellen

- GitHub API reports repository creation and releases.
- GitHub README documents purpose, operation model, installation, examples, and related work.
- crates.io API reports crate publication and latest crate version.
- input.source_facts.package-manager lists package-manager availability.


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - binocle: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/binocle/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - binocle - 0.3.2-3: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: binocle from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A graphical tool to visualize binary data | https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle
- MacPorts - binocle: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/binocle/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph