# upx mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für upx in AI-Agent-Workflows.
## Installation
```sh
sudo av install brew:upx
```
Weitere Installationsbefehle:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install upx
```
Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install upx
```
Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: archivers/upx/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add upx
```
Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: upx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install upx
```
Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: upx 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#upx
```
Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/up/upx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S upx
```
Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: upx from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install upx
```
Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: upx from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
### Windows
- Chocolatey (92%):
```sh
choco install upx
```
Evidenz: Chocolatey community package catalog: upx from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','unikey'
- Scoop (92%):
```sh
scoop install main/upx
```
Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/upx.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id UPX.UPX -e
```
Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: UPX.UPX from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Paketfakten
- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:upx
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.2.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Compress/expand executable files
- **Homepage:**
- **Repository:**
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-08T16:51:09Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- upx (Alias)
## Installationsverhalten
- Bottle: nicht verfügbar
## Version und Aktualität
- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 5.2.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
UPX, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, is a long-running executable compressor. Its documentation describes a free, portable, high-performance packer that commonly reduces executable and DLL size while leaving packed programs self-contained.
### Projektgeschichte
The UPX tree traces its lineage to earlier work by Markus Oberhumer and Laszlo Molnar in the 1990s, and the NEWS file marks version 0.05 on 26 May 1998 as the first public beta. Version 1.00 followed on 26 March 2000, after rapid expansion across DOS, Windows, Linux, and other executable formats.
### Adoptionsgeschichte
UPX became a standard tool in release engineering because it targets executable formats rather than source code or archive files. The project moved to GitHub with the 3.92 release in December 2016 and uses the GitHub Pages site as its current home page. The batch input lists wide package-manager coverage across Homebrew, Alpine, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, Chocolatey, Scoop, winget, and openSUSE, reflecting cross-platform demand.
### Wie es verwendet wird
The core package-nerd workflow is direct and scriptable: run `upx` on a binary to pack it, use `-d` to unpack, `-t` to test, and `-l` to inspect compressed size and ratio. The documentation also discusses compression levels, `--best`, `--brute`, LZMA, overlay handling, environment-variable defaults, and format-specific caveats.
### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
UPX is significant because it sits at the boundary between packaging, binary distribution, reverse engineering, antivirus analysis, and embedded-size constraints. Maintainers care about its format support, reproducibility hazards, security context warning, unpackability, and the fact that modern operating-system changes can break old packing assumptions.
### Zeitleiste
- 1998: Version 0.05 was the first public beta.
- 2000: Version 1.00 was released.
- 2006: 2.90 beta added LZMA support for many formats.
- 2016: Version 3.92 moved the project to GitHub and the upx.github.io home page.
- 2022: Version 4.0.0 switched to semantic versioning and added easier CMake source builds.
- 2025: Version 5.0.0 introduced major ELF changes including memfd_create support for SELinux enforcing mode.
- 2026: Version 5.2.0 added the cpm86/cmd format.
### Related projects
- The NEWS file says the first public beta drew on experience from DJP, lzop, and mfxpak. UPX also relates to executable-format ecosystems such as ELF, PE, Mach-O, DOS, and firmware/kernel image formats.
### Quellen
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## Sicherheitshinweise
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
- Nix - upx: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/up/upx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - upx - 5.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: upx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Ultimate Packer for eXecutables | https://upx.github.io/
- apk - upx-doc - 5.2.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: upx-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (documentation) | https://upx.github.io/
- dnf - upx - 5.2.0-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: upx from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Ultimate Packer for eXecutables | https://github.com/upx/upx
- pacman - upx - 5.2.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: upx from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Extendable, high-performance executable packer for several executable formats | https://github.com/upx/upx
- zypper - upx - 5.2.0-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: upx from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables | https://upx.github.io/
- MacPorts - upx: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: archivers/upx/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - upx: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: upx from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','unikey'
- Scoop - main/upx: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/upx.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - UPX.UPX: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: UPX.UPX from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/upx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/upx.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