# gpgme mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gpgme
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gpgme
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gpgme
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add gpgme
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install gpgme
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpgme from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gpgme
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S gpgme
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install gpgme
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install gpgme-json
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gpgme
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.1.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Library access to GnuPG
- **Homepage:** <https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-30T15:25:23Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gnupg-key-manage (Alias)
- gpgme-config (Alias)
- gpgme-json (Alias)
- gpgme-tool (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.1.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

GPGME, short for GnuPG Made Easy, is the official C API for integrating applications with the GnuPG crypto stack. It gives programs a stable high-level interface for encryption, decryption, signing, verification, and key management instead of scripting the `gpg` command line.

### Projektgeschichte

GPGME was created inside the GnuPG ecosystem to make public-key crypto engines easier for applications to use. The reference manual describes it as a C library that uses GnuPG and GpgSM as backends for OpenPGP and CMS.

The NEWS file records a 1.0.0 release on 2004-09-30, described by the project as a thoroughly tested stable library branch. Shortly after that, version 1.0.2 on 2004-12-28 changed the library license to LGPL-2.1-or-later, a significant packaging and application-integration decision.

Over time GPGME grew beyond its C surface. The GnuPG wiki documents official bindings for C++, Qt, Python, and Common Lisp, and the NEWS file records later work on Python bindings, `gpgme-json`, and a 2.0.0 release in 2025 that split the C++, Qt, and Python bindings into separately released projects.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The GnuPG project recommends GPGME as the way applications should use the GnuPG crypto stack, because command-line options and textual output are not the same thing as an official API. That recommendation is why GPGME shows up as a dependency under mail user agents, desktop key managers, package-signing tools, and language bindings.

Distribution adoption follows from that API role. Homebrew packages the library together with command-line helper tools such as `gpgme-config`, `gpgme-json`, `gpgme-tool`, and `gnupg-key-manage`; Debian and Ubuntu expose `gpgme-json`; and other package systems carry the core `gpgme` library.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Applications create a GPGME context and use library calls for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification, key listing, import, export, and key management. GPGME invokes GnuPG or GpgSM behind the API, so application code does not need to parse `gpg` status output directly.

The library is especially important for mail user agents and GUI tools that need OpenPGP or S/MIME support without becoming cryptographic engines themselves.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GPGME is packaging glue with security consequences. It hides command-line churn behind ABI and API promises, which lets desktop applications, TUI tools, mail clients, and language bindings depend on GnuPG while still integrating with normal shared-library packaging.

For maintainers, GPGME also explains why many packages pull in the GnuPG stack even when they are not named `gpg`: they need the supported API, the engine binaries, libgpg-error, and sometimes Assuan or language binding packages.

### Zeitleiste

- 2004-09-30: GPGME 1.0.0 established the stable 1.x branch.
- 2004-12-28: GPGME 1.0.2 changed the library license to LGPL-2.1-or-later.
- 2005-10-01: GPGME 1.1.0 added configurable backend engine filenames and home directories.
- 2018-04-18: GPGME 1.11.0 added `gpgme-json` as a native messaging server for web browsers.
- 2024-06-17: The GnuPG wiki API page documented GPGME as the recommended API and listed official language bindings.
- 2025-06-03: GPGME 2.0.0 split C++, Qt, and Python bindings into separately released projects.
- 2026-05-18: GPGME 2.1.0 added new decrypt result fields and context flags.

### Related projects

- Related GnuPG components include GnuPG, GpgSM, libgpg-error, libassuan, pinentry, GPA, Kleopatra, Gpg4win, and language binding packages built over GPGME.

### Quellen

- <https://dev.gnupg.org/source/gpgme.git>
- <https://github.com/gpg/gpgme/blob/master/NEWS>
- <https://wiki.gnupg.org/APIs>
- <https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gpgme/Introduction.html>
- <https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für gpgme wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - gpgme: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gp/gpgme/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - gpgme - 2.0.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gpgme from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | gnupg made easy | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- apk - gpgme-dev - 2.0.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gpgme-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | gnupg made easy (development files) | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- apk - gpgme-doc - 2.0.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gpgme-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | gnupg made easy (documentation) | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- apk - gpgme-lisp - 2.0.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gpgme-lisp from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Common Lisp bindings for GPGME | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- dnf - gpgme - 2.0.1-6.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpgme from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | GnuPG Made Easy - high level crypto API | https://gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- dnf - gpgme-devel - 2.0.1-6.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpgme-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development headers and libraries for gpgme | https://gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- pacman - gpgme - 2.1.2-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: gpgme from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz | C wrapper library for GnuPG | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- zypper - gpgme - 2.1.2-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gpgme from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Programmatic library interface to GnuPG | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- zypper - gpgme-devel - 2.1.2-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gpgme-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Development files for GPGME, a C library for accessing GnuPG | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- zypper - libgpgme45 - 2.1.2-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libgpgme45 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Programmatic library interface to GnuPG | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- zypper - libgpgme45-32bit - 2.1.2-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libgpgme45-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Programmatic library interface to GnuPG | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
- MacPorts - gpgme: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/gpgme/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - gpgme-json - 1.24.2-3: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: gpgme-json from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Use GnuPG with web browser extensions | https://gnupg.org/software/gpgme/
- Ubuntu apt - gpgme-json - 1.18.0-4.1ubuntu4: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gpgme-json from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | json interface to the GPGME GnuPG encryption library | https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/


## Combined YAML source

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