# geographiclib mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, apt, dnf installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für geographiclib in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:geographiclib ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install geographiclib ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install geographiclib ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: gis/geographiclib/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#geographiclib ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/geographiclib/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install geographiclib-doc ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: geographiclib-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install GeographicLib ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: GeographicLib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:geographiclib - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 2.7 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** C++ geography library - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - Cart3Convert (Alias) - CartConvert (Alias) - Conformal3Proj (Alias) - ConicProj (Alias) - GeoConvert (Alias) - Geod3Solve (Alias) - GeodSolve (Alias) - GeodesicProj (Alias) - GeoidEval (Alias) - Gravity (Alias) - IntersectTool (Alias) - MagneticField (Alias) - Planimeter (Alias) - RhumbSolve (Alias) - TransverseMercatorProj (Alias) - geographiclib-get-geoids (Alias) - geographiclib-get-gravity (Alias) - geographiclib-get-magnetic (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 2.7 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung GeographicLib is a family of geodesy libraries descended from Charles Karney's C++ library, which began in 2008. The C++ library provides geodesic and rhumb-line calculations, coordinate conversions, gravity and geomagnetic field calculations, triaxial-ellipsoid computations, command-line utilities, and high-accuracy algorithms intended to return results near round-off error. ### Projektgeschichte The project began as a C++ library, then grew because its geodesic routines were useful enough to port to several other languages. Before version 2.0, those implementations lived together in one repository; after version 2.0 they were split into a family of repositories, leaving the C++ repository as the broadest implementation. The documentation describes GeographicLib as project-hosted on SourceForge, with repositories on GitHub and package distributions maintained through SourceForge. The C++ repository also documents separate release and development branches, a pattern useful to downstream packagers who need stable tagged releases. ### Adoptionsgeschichte GeographicLib's geodesic routines spread beyond the C++ package into C, Fortran, Python, Octave/MATLAB, Java, and JavaScript implementations. The C library is incorporated into PROJ and the R geosphere package, and official notes list downstream availability in Linux distributions, conda-forge, vcpkg, and Homebrew. ### Wie es verwendet wird Practitioners use GeographicLib when accuracy matters for ellipsoidal geodesics, UTM/UPS/MGRS conversion, geocentric and local Cartesian conversion, geoid height evaluation, gravity models, magnetic models, polygon perimeter and area, and rhumb-line calculations. The package exposes this work through C++ APIs and many small utilities such as `GeodSolve`, `GeoConvert`, `GeoidEval`, `Gravity`, and `MagneticField`. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren For package-manager users, GeographicLib is a compact but foundational geodesy dependency: it provides command-line tools, data installers, and stable library APIs used by mapping, GIS, surveying, navigation, and scientific software. The split between code packages and optional datasets makes it a classic packaging case where binaries and data files are handled separately. ### Zeitleiste - 2008: Charles Karney's original C++ library began. - 2009-2025: The documentation copyright span reflects long-running public maintenance. - 2.0: Language implementations were separated into a family of repositories. ### Related projects - Related implementations include GeographicLib-C, GeographicLib-Fortran, GeographicLib-Python, GeographicLib-Java, and JavaScript packages. The documentation also names PROJ, geosphere, conda-forge, vcpkg, Homebrew, and several independent ports or wrappers. ### Quellen - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - geographiclib-doc - 2.5-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: geographiclib-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- documentation | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Debian apt - geographiclib-tools - 2.5-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: geographiclib-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- tools | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Debian apt - libgeographiclib-dev - 2.5-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgeographiclib-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- development files | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Debian apt - libgeographiclib26 - 2.5-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgeographiclib26 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- library | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Nix - geographiclib: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/geographiclib/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - geographiclib-doc - 2.3-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: geographiclib-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- documentation | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Ubuntu apt - geographiclib-tools - 2.3-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: geographiclib-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- tools | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Ubuntu apt - libgeographiclib-dev - 2.3-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgeographiclib-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- development files | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - Ubuntu apt - libgeographiclib26 - 2.3-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgeographiclib26 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- library | https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ - dnf - GeographicLib - 2.7-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: GeographicLib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Library for geographic coordinate transformations | https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib - dnf - GeographicLib-devel - 2.7-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: GeographicLib-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files and libraries for GeographicLib | https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib - dnf - GeographicLib-doc - 2.7-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: GeographicLib-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development documentation for GeographicLib | https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib - dnf - mingw32-GeographicLib - 2.7-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw32-GeographicLib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows GeographicLib library | https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib - dnf - mingw64-GeographicLib - 2.7-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw64-GeographicLib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows GeographicLib library | https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib - MacPorts - geographiclib: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: gis/geographiclib/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - MacPorts - gravity: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: lang/gravity/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/geographiclib.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/geographiclib.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