# fastjar mit Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fastjar
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fastjar
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fastjar
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add fastjar
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fastjar from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install fastjar
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fastjar
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S fastjar
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install fastjar
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fastjar
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.98
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Implementation of Sun's jar tool
- **Homepage:** <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fastjar (Alias)
- grepjar (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.98
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

fastjar is a free-software implementation of the Java JAR command, paired with grepjar, that survived as a small Unix package because it let GCC/GNU Java-era systems create and inspect JAR archives without depending on Sun's proprietary toolchain.

### Projektgeschichte

The Savannah project page records fastjar as a non-GNU project registered on March 21, 2006, with GPL-2.0-or-later licensing and a CVS source repository. GCC hosted a manual titled Guide to GNU jar utilities, documenting fastjar and grepjar as command-line utilities.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

fastjar's adoption has been historical and distribution-driven rather than community-growth driven. It appears in Unix package managers as a compatibility tool for older Java/GNU Classpath and GCC Java workflows, while modern Java installations generally provide jar through the JDK.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The GCC manual describes fastjar as the tool to invoke for JAR archive operations and grepjar as the companion search utility. In practice it is installed when a small, standalone jar-compatible command is needed in old build recipes or minimal packaging environments.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about fastjar mostly as fossil infrastructure: it is a reminder of the period when free Java tooling had to replace proprietary pieces one command at a time, and it remains packaged because old build graphs sometimes still name fastjar explicitly.

### Zeitleiste

- 2006: fastjar project registered on Savannah.
- 2006: GCC 4.0-era online docs published the fastjar and grepjar manual.
- 2026: Homebrew still packages fastjar 0.98 as an implementation of Sun's jar tool.

### Related projects

- Sun/Oracle jar is the tool fastjar implements.
- grepjar is shipped and documented as fastjar's companion utility.
- GNU Classpath and GCC Java-era packaging are the ecosystem context in which fastjar mattered most.

### Quellen

- <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar>
- <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.4/fastjar>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fastjar>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - fastjar - 2:0.98-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: fastjar from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Jar creation utility
- Nix - fastjar: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fastjar/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - fastjar - 2:0.98-7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fastjar from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Jar creation utility
- apk - fastjar - 0.98-r5: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fastjar from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A fast implementation of Java Archiver | http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar
- apk - fastjar-doc - 0.98-r5: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fastjar-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A fast implementation of Java Archiver (documentation) | http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar
- pacman - fastjar - 0.98-7: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: fastjar from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Sun java jar compatible archiver | https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar
- zypper - fastjar - 0.98-28.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fastjar from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Java package archiver | https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar/
- MacPorts - fastjar: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: archivers/fastjar/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/fastjar.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fastjar.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