# orcania mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:orcania
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install orcania
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#orcania
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S orcania
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install liborcania-dev
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install liborcania2_3
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborcania2_3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:orcania
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.3.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Potluck with different functions for different purposes in C
- **Homepage:** <https://babelouest.github.io/orcania/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/babelouest/orcania>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- base64url (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.3.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Orcania is a small C utility library from the Babelouest project family. Its own documentation calls it a potluck of functions that can be shared among C programs, intended to provide low-level functionality for the author's other libraries and programs.

### Projektgeschichte

The public history is mostly visible through the repository and changelog rather than narrative release notes. The changelog shows the library maturing from build-system work in the 1.2 series to a 2.0.0 release that added a pointer-list structure, string-array helpers, base64url encode/decode functions, base64url-to-base64 conversion, pkg-config installation, and removal of a Jansson dependency.

Later 2.x releases focused on small C-library polish: Doxygen documentation, pointer-list cleanup helpers, safer string helpers, improved base64 decoding, license harmonization, a `base64url` command-line tool, static-link pkg-config fixes, MSVC support, and stricter compiler warnings.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Orcania's adoption is primarily as an internal foundation for Babelouest C projects. Its documentation says it exists to provide shared low-level functionality for the author's other libraries and programs, and related Babelouest repositories such as Yder document Orcania as a prerequisite.

The upstream README says Orcania is available as official packages in multiple distributions and can also be installed from precompiled release packages or built from source with CMake or a Makefile.

### Wie es verwendet wird

C programs use Orcania for null-tolerant string wrappers, split-string and string-array helpers, a generic pointer-list structure, base64 and base64url encoding and decoding, and hooks for replacing allocation functions. The Homebrew formula also installs a `base64url` executable.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Orcania is package-nerd-interesting less for fame than for dependency shape: it is a small leaf library that factors repeated C utility code out of a family of web, logging, database, and service projects. Packaging it separately lets downstream distributions build the rest of the Babelouest stack against a shared LGPL library instead of vendoring helpers.

### Zeitleiste

- 1.2.0: The changelog records addition of a CMake installation script.
- 2.0.0: The changelog records pointer-list, string-array, base64url, pkg-config, and dependency cleanup changes.
- 2.2.0: The changelog records addition of the `base64url` command-line tool.
- 2.3.x: The changelog records base64 allocation helpers, MSVC support, stricter compiler flags, and minor bug fixes.

### Related projects

- Orcania is part of the Babelouest C ecosystem and is referenced by related projects such as Yder. It also supports higher-level Babelouest projects that need shared low-level C helpers.

### Quellen

- <https://babelouest.github.io/orcania/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/orcania>
- <https://github.com/babelouest/orcania>
- <https://github.com/babelouest/orcania/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://github.com/babelouest/yder>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - liborcania-dev - 2.3.3-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liborcania-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | library for angharad programs, development files | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- Debian apt - liborcania2.3 - 2.3.3-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liborcania2.3 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | library for angharad programs | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- Nix - orcania: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/or/orcania/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - liborcania-dev - 2.3.3-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liborcania-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | library for angharad programs, development files | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- Ubuntu apt - liborcania2.3 - 2.3.3-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liborcania2.3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | library for angharad programs | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- pacman - orcania - 2.3.3-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: orcania from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Potluck with different functions for different purposes that can be shared among C programs | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- zypper - liborcania2_3 - 2.3.3-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborcania2_3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | MISC function library | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania
- zypper - orcania-devel - 2.3.3-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: orcania-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Header files for orcania | https://github.com/babelouest/orcania


## Combined YAML source

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