# biodiff mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für biodiff in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:biodiff ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install biodiff ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#biodiff ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/biodiff/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S biodiff ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: biodiff from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install biodiff ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: biodiff from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/biodiff ``` Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/biodiff.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id 8051Enthusiast.biodiff -e ``` Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: 8051Enthusiast.biodiff from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:biodiff - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.2.1 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Hex diff viewer using alignment algorithms from biology - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - biodiff (Alias) - git-biodiff (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 1.2.1 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung biodiff is an interactive binary diff viewer that borrows biological sequence-alignment algorithms to line up similar regions of two binary files. ### Projektgeschichte The 8051Enthusiast/biodiff repository was created in May 2021. The README describes the tool as a binary diff viewer that displays two files side by side, pads missing bytes, and uses alignment algorithms from WFA2 or rust-bio, libraries normally associated with DNA sequence alignment. ### Adoptionsgeschichte biodiff reached a 1.0.0 release in February 2022 and a 1.2.x series in April 2024. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, Nix, Arch/pacman, Scoop, Winget, and openSUSE/zypper, showing adoption across Unix, Windows package-manager, and Rust-adjacent channels. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users run `biodiff file_a file_b` for a terminal hex view, then switch between unaligned and aligned views, align regions near the cursor, do global or semiglobal alignment for smaller inputs, and optionally print diffs directly with `biodiff --print`. The README notes that global alignment has quadratic time and space costs and is not a good fit for large files, which is a useful package-level expectation for people comparing firmware chunks or binary formats. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren biodiff is interesting because it smuggles a bioinformatics idea into reverse-engineering tooling. The package name is literal: binary diffing improved by sequence alignment. ### Zeitleiste - 2021: Repository created and first v0.1.2 release published. - 2022: v1.0.0 released. - 2023: v1.1.0 released. - 2024: v1.2.1 released. ### Related projects - biodiff is related to WFA2-lib, rust-bio, cursive, hex viewers, binary diff tools, and `git difftool` workflows through its `git-biodiff` executable. ### Quellen - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## 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 - Linux: $BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR/config.json, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/biodiff/config.json, ~/.config/biodiff/config.json - macOS: $BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR/config.json, ~/Library/Application Support/biodiff/config.json - Windows: %BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR%\config.json, %APPDATA%\biodiff\config.json ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - biodiff: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/biodiff/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - biodiff - 1.2.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: biodiff from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Hex diff viewer using alignment algorithms from biology | https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff - zypper - biodiff - 1.2.1-1.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: biodiff from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A tool for binary diffing | https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/ - Scoop - main/biodiff: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/biodiff.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - 8051Enthusiast.biodiff: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: 8051Enthusiast.biodiff from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/biodiff.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/biodiff.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph