usbutils mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• usbhid-dump

Projektgeschichte

The official kernel.org Git history begins on 2004-02-20 with an initial revision, followed by early 2004 changes around lsusb behavior, USB IDs, and descriptor reporting. That places usbutils in the long-running Linux USB user-space tooling lineage rather than in the newer single-purpose CLI wave.

The package has remained small but central: the tree contains `lsusb`, `usb-devices`, `usbreset`, USB descriptor tables, and usbhid-dump integration. The README records libusb and libudev as build dependencies and lists kernel.org as the maintainer-preferred source location, with mirrors at SourceHut and GitHub.

The old-style NEWS file is maintained for people without access to Git history, which is a very package-oriented signal: distro users and packagers can still see release changes even when they are building from a source tarball instead of browsing the repository.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The input package metadata lists usbutils across Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE package families. That breadth follows naturally from its role as the standard user-space package behind `lsusb` and related USB inspection tools.

usbutils is usually adopted indirectly by administrators, developers, and hardware debuggers: it is installed when someone needs to identify USB vendors/products, inspect descriptors, reset devices, or troubleshoot how the kernel sees attached USB hardware.

Wie es verwendet wird

The core workflow is host inspection: run the tools on a machine with USB devices attached, list devices, inspect descriptors, dump HID information, or reset a device. The README emphasizes that the tools are for host-side querying and require libusb and libudev to build.

In package-manager culture, usbutils is often one of the first packages installed inside containers, rescue systems, minimal Linux images, or macOS/Linux developer workstations when hardware discovery is needed.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

usbutils is significant because it turns kernel USB state into command-line facts. Packagers care about it as a small, stable diagnostic bundle with a recognizable executable surface and a dependency relationship to libusb, udev, hardware ID data, and distribution packaging policies.

Zeitleiste

• 2004-02-20: Official Git history begins with an initial revision.
• 2009-04-26: Official tag v0.80 created.
• 2018-2025: NEWS file maintained for packaged versions without Git history.
• 2024-10-22: Official tag v018 created.
• 2025-10-22: Official tag v019 created.

Related projects

• The official README names libusb and libudev as dependencies, and the contribution section points to the linux-usb mailing list.

Quellen

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbutils.git/plain/NEWS
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbutils.git/plain/README.md
• input source_facts.package-manager
• official git log and tags from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbutils.git