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

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gegl
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gegl
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gegl
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add gegl
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install gegl
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gegl
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S gegl
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install gegl
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gegl
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.70
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Graph based image processing framework
- **Homepage:** <https://www.gegl.org/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-05T23:58:38Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gegl (Alias)
- gegl-imgcmp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.4.70
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

GEGL, the Generic Graphics Library, is a data-flow image processing framework used both as a library and through the `gegl` command-line tool. Its package-manager interest comes from its role as the image-processing engine behind GIMP's modern high bit-depth, graph-based processing pipeline.

### Projektgeschichte

GEGL's public source history reaches back to the early GNOME graphics stack era, with early repository activity in 2000 and later 0.x release tags preserved in the GNOME repository. The project evolved around processing images as graphs of operations rather than as one-off filter calls, exposing floating-point processing, non-destructive pipeline structure, and reusable operations.

GIMP's 2.10 development cycle made GEGL historically important beyond a standalone library. The GIMP release notes describe the 2.10 release as the result of a six-year effort that originally focused on porting the application to GEGL, completing a progression that began with optional GEGL-backed color tools and ended with GEGL handling tile management and project graphs.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The GEGL site names GIMP as the flagship user and also points to GNOME Photos, imgflo, and other graphics projects as users of the framework. GIMP 2.10's GEGL port gave the library broad downstream exposure because every distribution packaging GIMP also needed the GEGL stack and its close companion library, babl.

For package maintainers, GEGL is notable because it sits at the boundary between an end-user desktop application and a reusable media-processing runtime. Its operations, command-line interface, plugins, and GObject-based API make it a common dependency in GNOME and graphics-oriented package sets.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use GEGL by chaining operations into processing graphs. Developers link against the C API or write operations; users and testers can invoke `gegl` on the command line to run the same style of pipelines outside GIMP.

In GIMP workflows, GEGL-backed filters support higher bit depths, multi-threaded processing, split previews, saved presets, and the architectural groundwork for non-destructive editing.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GEGL matters to package nerds because it is both a leaf command and a heavy shared dependency. Version skew between GEGL, babl, and GIMP can affect image loading, filters, and plugin behavior, so distro and Homebrew formula updates tend to track it alongside the rest of the GIMP graphics stack.

### Zeitleiste

- 2000: Early GEGL source history appears in the GNOME repository.
- 2012-2018: GIMP's six-year 2.10 development cycle centers on completing the GEGL port.
- 2018: GIMP 2.10 ships with GEGL used for tile management and project processing graphs.

### Related projects

- GEGL is closely tied to GIMP, babl, GNOME Photos, imgflo, and other graphics projects that consume GEGL operations or depend on its color and image-processing model.

### Quellen

- <https://developer.gimp.org/api/gegl/>
- <https://gegl.org/>
- <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl>
- <https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - gegl - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: gegl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Generic Graphics Library Test Program | https://gegl.org/
- Debian apt - gir1.2-gegl-0.4 - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-gegl-0.4 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GObject introspection data for the Generic Graphics Library | https://gegl.org/
- Debian apt - libgegl-0.4-0t64 - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgegl-0.4-0t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Generic Graphics Library | https://gegl.org/
- Debian apt - libgegl-common - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgegl-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Generic Graphics Library - common files | https://gegl.org/
- Debian apt - libgegl-dev - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgegl-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Generic Graphics Library (development files) | https://gegl.org/
- Debian apt - libgegl-doc - 1:0.4.62-2+deb13u2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgegl-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Generic Graphics Library (documentation) | https://gegl.org/
- Nix - gegl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/gegl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - gegl - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gegl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Generic Graphics Library Test Program | https://gegl.org/
- Ubuntu apt - gir1.2-gegl-0.4 - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-gegl-0.4 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | GObject introspection data for the Generic Graphics Library | https://gegl.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libgegl-0.4-0t64 - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgegl-0.4-0t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Generic Graphics Library | https://gegl.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libgegl-common - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgegl-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Generic Graphics Library - common files | https://gegl.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libgegl-dev - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgegl-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Generic Graphics Library (development files) | https://gegl.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libgegl-doc - 1:0.4.48-2.4build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgegl-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Generic Graphics Library (documentation) | https://gegl.org/
- apk - gegl - 0.4.70-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gegl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Graph based image processing framework | https://www.gegl.org/
- apk - gegl-dev - 0.4.70-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gegl-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Graph based image processing framework (development files) | https://www.gegl.org/
- apk - gegl-lang - 0.4.70-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gegl-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package gegl | https://www.gegl.org/


## Combined YAML source

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