# libarchive mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für libarchive in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:libarchive ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install libarchive ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install libarchive ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: archivers/libarchive/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add libarchive ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install libarchive ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libarchive 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#libarchive ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S libarchive ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: libarchive from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libarchive-dev ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: libarchive-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install bsdtar ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: bsdtar from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:libarchive - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 3.8.9 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Multi-format archive and compression library - **Homepage:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - bsdcat (Alias) - bsdcpio (Alias) - bsdtar (Alias) - bsdunzip (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 3.8.9 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung libarchive is a portable C library and command-line tool suite for reading and writing many archive formats. It ships bsdtar, bsdcpio, bsdcat, and bsdunzip, making it both a developer library and a practical Unix toolbox package. ### Projektgeschichte The project began in the FreeBSD orbit and was first released in 2006, according to its own libarchive 3.0 transition notes. Its design emphasized streaming, automatic format detection, and a single API that could handle tar, cpio, zip, ISO images, compression filters, and later many more formats. ### Adoptionsgeschichte libarchive spread widely because packaging systems, installers, build tools, and OS utilities all need to unpack archives without shelling out to a pile of format-specific programs. Its bsdtar and bsdcpio utilities became FreeBSD-associated alternatives to GNU tar and cpio, while the library itself was packaged across Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows-oriented environments. ### Wie es verwendet wird Applications link libarchive to read and write archives through one API, while users run bsdtar, bsdcpio, bsdcat, or bsdunzip. The project site emphasizes automatic handling of archive-plus-compression combinations such as tar.gz and support for POSIX-like systems plus Windows. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren libarchive is one of those packages that quietly makes package managers work. Its importance is in boring reliability: many archive formats, many platforms, a test suite, and CLI tools that can replace multiple single-format utilities. ### Zeitleiste - 2006: libarchive was first released. - 2011-12: libarchive 3.0 was released after nearly two years of development since 2.8. - 2016-04-30: libarchive 3.2.0 added bsdcat, LZ4, WARC, raw writer, and ZIP64-related features. - 2018-09-03: libarchive 3.3.3 included Zstandard read and write filters. - 2023-07-14: the project recorded a bsdunzip port from FreeBSD in NEWS. ### Related projects - Related projects include FreeBSD tar and cpio tooling, GNU tar, Info-ZIP, zlib, bzip2, xz, lz4, zstd, archive-consuming package managers, and installers. ### 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 - libarchive-dev - 3.7.4-4+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libarchive-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Multi-format archive and compression library (development files) | https://www.libarchive.org/ - Debian apt - libarchive-tools - 3.7.4-4+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libarchive-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools | https://www.libarchive.org/ - Debian apt - libarchive13t64 - 3.7.4-4+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libarchive13t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Multi-format archive and compression library (shared library) | https://www.libarchive.org/ - Nix - libarchive: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libarchive/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - libarchive-dev - 3.7.2-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libarchive-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Multi-format archive and compression library (development files) | https://www.libarchive.org/ - Ubuntu apt - libarchive-tools - 3.7.2-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libarchive-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools | https://www.libarchive.org/ - Ubuntu apt - libarchive13t64 - 3.7.2-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libarchive13t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Multi-format archive and compression library (shared library) | https://www.libarchive.org/ - apk - libarchive - 3.8.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | library that can create and read several streaming archive formats | https://libarchive.org/ - apk - libarchive-dev - 3.8.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | library that can create and read several streaming archive formats (development files) | https://libarchive.org/ - apk - libarchive-doc - 3.8.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | library that can create and read several streaming archive formats (documentation) | https://libarchive.org/ - apk - libarchive-static - 3.8.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive-static from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | library that can create and read several streaming archive formats (static library) | https://libarchive.org/ - apk - libarchive-tools - 3.8.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarchive-tools from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | libarchive tools bsdtar and bsdcpio | https://libarchive.org/ - dnf - bsdcat - 3.8.8-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bsdcat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Expand files to standard output | https://www.libarchive.org/ - dnf - bsdcpio - 3.8.8-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bsdcpio from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Copy files to and from archives | https://www.libarchive.org/ - dnf - bsdtar - 3.8.8-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bsdtar from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Manipulate tape archives | https://www.libarchive.org/ - dnf - bsdunzip - 3.8.8-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bsdunzip from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Extract files from a ZIP archive | https://www.libarchive.org/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/libarchive.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/libarchive.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