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

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:openimageio
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install openimageio
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install openimageio
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add openimageio
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#openimageio
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S openimageio
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libopenimageio-dev
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install OpenImageIO
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install OpenImageIO
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/igrep
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/igrep.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:openimageio
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.1.16.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Library for reading, processing and writing images
- **Homepage:** <https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-08-01T04:53:22Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- iconvert (Alias)
- idiff (Alias)
- igrep (Alias)
- iinfo (Alias)
- maketx (Alias)
- oiiotool (Alias)
- testtex (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.1.16.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

OpenImageIO is a C++ and Python image I/O, image processing, image-cache, and texture-system toolkit aimed at visual-effects and animation pipelines. Its package-nerd appeal comes from being both a library and a practical CLI suite: oiiotool, iinfo, iconvert, idiff, igrep, maketx, and related tools expose the same format-agnostic image stack used by renderers, compositors, viewers, and production utilities.

### Projektgeschichte

The project was created and open sourced in 2008 by Larry Gritz while he was a software architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks. It grew out of production needs rather than a general desktop-imaging niche: the project mission describes reading, writing, and manipulating image files in formats relevant to VFX and animation, with the scalability and robustness expected in feature-film work.

OpenImageIO became part of the Academy Software Foundation, a Linux Foundation project formed with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The project also went through a relicensing effort: the repository notes that in 2023 historical contributors were asked to move original code from the original BSD-3-Clause license to Apache-2.0, with nearly all lines relicensed.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

OpenImageIO spread because it solves a low-glamour but constant production problem: every tool in a studio needs to read metadata, pixels, deep/float/high-dynamic-range formats, movie-frame sequences, texture maps, and common web and camera formats without every application embedding its own file-format code.

The project is tightly connected to the open-source VFX stack. Its README names OpenEXR, OpenColorIO, Ptex, OpenVDB, many camera RAW formats, and other production formats among supported plugins or dependencies, and its maintainer history overlaps with Open Shading Language and ASWF projects.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers link against ImageInput and ImageOutput when they want an application to read and write many image formats through one API. Pipeline tools and build systems use oiiotool, iconvert, iinfo, idiff, and maketx for conversion, inspection, image comparisons, metadata searches, and texture preparation.

Renderer and look-development workflows use the ImageCache and TextureSystem layers when a process must touch many large images or MIP-mapped textures without loading everything into memory. The project documentation explicitly calls out use on many large VFX and animated films.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For packagers, OpenImageIO is a dependency graph in miniature: a C++ core, Python bindings, plugin-style image formats, CLI tools, and heavyweight media dependencies such as OpenEXR, OpenColorIO, libtiff, libraw, JPEG XL, FFmpeg, and WebP. A successful package proves that a system can assemble a real VFX image stack, not just compile a single library.

### Zeitleiste

- 2008: Larry Gritz created and open sourced OpenImageIO at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
- 2023: the project asked historical contributors to relicense original code from BSD-3-Clause to Apache-2.0.
- 2023: OpenImageIO was adopted by the Academy Software Foundation.

### Related projects

- OpenImageIO sits near OpenEXR, OpenColorIO, Open Shading Language, Ptex, OpenVDB, and renderer texture systems. In package managers, it is often encountered as a dependency of VFX, rendering, asset-processing, and media-conversion tools rather than as a standalone end-user application.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openimageio>
- <https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO>
- <https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
- <https://www.aswf.io/bts/larry_gritz_imageworks/>
- <https://www.awn.com/news/academy-software-foundation-adopts-openimageio>


## 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 - libopenimageio-dev - 2.5.18.0+dfsg-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libopenimageio-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for reading and writing images - development | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Debian apt - libopenimageio-doc - 2.5.18.0+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libopenimageio-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for reading and writing images - documentation | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Debian apt - libopenimageio2.5 - 2.5.18.0+dfsg-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libopenimageio2.5 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for reading and writing images - runtime | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Debian apt - openimageio-tools - 2.5.18.0+dfsg-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: openimageio-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for reading and writing images - command line tools | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Debian apt - python3-openimageio - 2.5.18.0+dfsg-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-openimageio from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for reading and writing images - Python bindings | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Nix - openimageio: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/openimageio/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libopenimageio-dev - 2.4.17.0+dfsg-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libopenimageio-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for reading and writing images - development | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libopenimageio-doc - 2.4.17.0+dfsg-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libopenimageio-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for reading and writing images - documentation | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libopenimageio2.4t64 - 2.4.17.0+dfsg-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libopenimageio2.4t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for reading and writing images - runtime | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Ubuntu apt - openimageio-tools - 2.4.17.0+dfsg-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: openimageio-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for reading and writing images - command line tools | https://www.openimageio.org/
- Ubuntu apt - python3-openimageio - 2.4.17.0+dfsg-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-openimageio from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for reading and writing images - Python bindings | https://www.openimageio.org/
- apk - openimageio - 3.1.16.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: openimageio from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Image I/O library supporting a multitude of image formats | https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/
- apk - openimageio-dev - 3.1.16.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: openimageio-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Image I/O library supporting a multitude of image formats (development files) | https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/
- apk - openimageio-doc - 3.1.16.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: openimageio-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Image I/O library supporting a multitude of image formats (documentation) | https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/
- apk - openimageio-tools - 3.1.16.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: openimageio-tools from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Tools for manipulating a multitude of image formats | https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/
- apk - py3-openimageio - 3.1.16.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: py3-openimageio from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Python bindings for OpenImageIO image I/O library | https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/


## Combined YAML source

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