# libfuse mit Homebrew installieren

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## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:libfuse
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libfuse
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:libfuse
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.18.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Reference implementation of the Linux FUSE interface
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fusermount3 (Alias)
- mount.fuse3 (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.18.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

libfuse is the reference userspace library for Linux FUSE, the interface that lets standalone programs implement filesystems while the kernel FUSE module forwards VFS requests to them.

### Projektgeschichte

The libfuse README describes FUSE as two pieces: the kernel module maintained in the regular Linux kernel repositories and the libfuse userspace library maintained in the libfuse repository. The same README describes high-level synchronous and low-level asynchronous APIs, mount and unmount helpers, request handling, and response functions.

The repository history reaches back to an imported-sources commit dated 2001-10-23. Its kernel interface header carries copyright notices for Miklos Szeredi from 2001 onward, and the project changelog for FUSE 2.9.5 on 2016-01-14 thanks Szeredi while naming Nikolaus Rath as the new maintainer. libfuse 3.x later moved packaging and development toward Meson/Ninja and the fuse3 command set.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

FUSE became a central Linux packaging dependency because it let SSH, archive, cloud, virtual, encrypted, and application-specific filesystems ship as ordinary user-space programs. The README states that libfuse is shipped by all major Linux distributions and has been in production use across a wide range of systems for many years.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A FUSE filesystem normally links against libfuse, mounts a userspace daemon, receives kernel requests through callbacks, and sends replies through the library. The package also provides fusermount3 and mount.fuse3 for mounting user filesystems with controlled privilege boundaries.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

libfuse is one of the packages that changed what a filesystem package can be: a userspace daemon, not a kernel module. Its formulae are unusually sensitive to Linux-only behavior, setuid helpers, /etc/fuse.conf policy, kernel ABI expectations, and the split between older FUSE 2 consumers and newer FUSE 3 consumers.

### Zeitleiste

- 2001-10-23: GitHub commit metadata records the imported-sources commit later tagged start.
- 2016-01-14: The changelog records FUSE 2.9.5 and the maintainer change to Nikolaus Rath.
- 2017-09-12: The changelog records libfuse 3.2.0 dropping autotools build support.
- 2026-03-18: GitHub release metadata records fuse-3.18.2.

### Related projects

- The Linux kernel FUSE module is the kernel-side peer of libfuse.
- macFUSE is the macOS-oriented related project named by the libfuse README for macOS users.
- SSHFS and many other userspace filesystems are built on the FUSE model.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/libfuse/libfuse/commits/bc22e7bec727bc72d91a3001fbda976f1adf352d>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/libfuse/libfuse/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse>
- <https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/master/ChangeLog.rst>
- <https://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- library-like package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
