# grsync mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:grsync
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install grsync
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install grsync
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install grsync
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install grsync
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: grsync 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#grsync
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S grsync
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install grsync
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:grsync
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** GUI for rsync
- **Homepage:** <https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- grsync (Alias)
- grsync-batch (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.3.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Grsync is a GTK graphical front end for rsync, built to make file synchronization and backup workflows available without composing rsync command lines by hand. Its own project page frames it as a tool for synchronizing folders, files, removable devices, network drives, partitions, and mirrors while still depending on the rsync command-line program underneath.

### Projektgeschichte

The Grsync changelog begins with a 0.1 alpha release and quickly adds the features that define the project in package-manager catalogs: saved sessions, translated GTK interface strings, progress parsing, rsync option controls, and a batch helper named grsync-batch. By the 0.6 series the project had import/export support for sessions, optional Windows compatibility behavior, and the batch script installed as part of the program.

The 1.x line continued as a pragmatic desktop wrapper around rsync rather than a replacement for rsync. Later releases added session sets, Unity desktop integration, logging improvements, translations, and eventually GTK 3 compatibility in version 1.3.0. Version 1.3.1 moved the default configuration directory from the user home directory to .config and included more desktop-file, translation, and GTK modernization work.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Grsync's adoption came from the long-running need for a discoverable desktop interface to rsync on Unix-like systems. The project page explicitly tells users to check standard package tools first because ready-made packages for Linux distributions were made by third parties, and Homebrew, Debian, Fedora-family, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE package facts reflect that cross-distribution packaging pattern.

The project also accumulated translations and packaging-related fixes over many releases, including desktop-file and lintian fixes, which made it suitable for graphical software centers and distribution repositories. For package maintainers, that history matters because Grsync is a small GUI application whose usefulness depends on correctly delegating to the system rsync binary.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run grsync to build and save rsync sessions for local or remote synchronization, preview runs, view rsync output, and reuse saved options. The companion grsync-batch command lets saved sessions participate in shell, cron, or scripted workflows without asking users to reconstruct the full rsync invocation.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Grsync is a classic package-nerd tool because it wraps a powerful Unix primitive rather than replacing it. It illustrates the packaging boundary between a GUI convenience layer, a command-line backend supplied by another package, desktop integration files, translations, and platform-specific GTK build concerns.

### Zeitleiste

- 0.1: First alpha release recorded in the project changelog.
- 0.1.1: Saved session support added.
- 0.6: grsync-batch installed by default for executing saved sessions.
- 2011: Version 1.2.0 published with session-set work disabled after testing problems.
- 2012: Version 1.2.1 enabled experimental session sets and added Unity support.
- 2020: Version 1.3.0 added GTK 3 compatibility.
- 2023: Version 1.3.1 shipped fixes, translation updates, GTK modernization, and default config-directory movement to .config.

### Related projects

- rsync is the underlying synchronization engine that Grsync drives.
- GTK is the desktop UI toolkit used by Grsync.
- Other desktop backup and synchronization front ends, such as Back In Time and luckyBackup, occupy adjacent package-manager territory.

### Quellen

- <https://sourceforge.net/p/grsync/code/HEAD/tree>
- <https://sourceforge.net/p/grsync/news/feed>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/grsync/>
- <https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/>
- <https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/changes.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 - grsync - 1.3.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: grsync from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GTK+ frontend for rsync | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- Nix - grsync: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grsync/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - grsync - 1.3.0-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: grsync from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | GTK+ frontend for rsync | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- dnf - grsync - 1.3.1-11.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: grsync from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A Gtk+ GUI for rsync | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- pacman - grsync - 1.3.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: grsync from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | GTK+ GUI for rsync to synchronize folders, files and make backups | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- zypper - grsync - 1.3.1-1.11: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: grsync from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | GUI for rsync | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- zypper - grsync-lang - 1.3.1-1.11: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: grsync-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Translations for package grsync | http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
- MacPorts - grsync: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/grsync/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/grsync.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/grsync.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