# Installer avro-c avec Homebrew, Nix, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de avro-c pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:avro-c
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install avro-c
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#avro-c
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/av/avro-c/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install avro-bin
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: avro-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:avro-c
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.12.1
- **Résumé source:** Data serialization system
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://avro.apache.org/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- avroappend (alias)
- avrocat (alias)
- avromod (alias)
- avropipe (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.12.1
## Historique du projet et usages

Avro C is the C implementation and command-line tooling slice of Apache Avro, Apache's schema-based data serialization system. In Homebrew it exposes utilities such as avrocat, avroappend, avropipe, and avromod for working with Avro object container files from a Unix shell.

### Historique du projet

Apache Avro's first official release was Avro 1.0.0 on July 15, 2010. The project was framed from the start as a serialization system with rich data structures, compact binary encoding, object container files, RPC support, and language bindings where code generation is optional rather than mandatory.

The C implementation lives in the main Apache Avro repository rather than a separate project. That matters for packagers: language bindings, command-line tools, release artifacts, and the shared Avro specification move together under the Apache release process.

### Historique d'adoption

Avro became common in data-engineering environments because it carries schemas with serialized data and supports schema evolution. Apache's current project site describes Avro as a leading serialization format for record data and a first choice for streaming data pipelines, with implementations across JVM languages, Python, C/C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Rust, JavaScript, and Perl.

The C package is a practical packaging target for users who need small native tools or C library integration without pulling in the Java toolchain. On Unix package managers it fills the niche between the full Java avro-tools jar and embedding Avro support in larger data platforms.

### Modes d'utilisation

The C utilities are mostly file and stream tools: avrocat inspects or emits records, avroappend appends data to container files, avropipe moves Avro data through pipelines, and avromod edits Avro container metadata. They are useful in shell workflows where the Java avro-tools package would be heavier than necessary.

There is no standard per-user configuration file or credential store for Avro C itself. Behavior is driven by schemas, Avro container metadata, command-line arguments, and application code using the C API.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package nerds, avro-c is interesting because it is a native-library subpackage split out of a multi-language Apache project. It gives Homebrew, Nix, and Debian-style systems a way to install Avro's C ABI and CLI utilities without treating the whole project as a Java artifact.

It also shows the awkward but useful boundary between data-format standards and language ecosystems: one upstream release, many language bindings, and multiple downstream formulas for the same specification.

### Chronologie

- 2010: Apache Avro 1.0.0 announced as the first Avro release.
- 2021: Avro 1.11.0 released with 120 JIRA issues addressed.
- 2024: Avro 1.12.0 released by the Apache Avro community.
- 2025: Avro 1.12.1 listed as the latest Apache Avro release.

### Related projects

- Apache Avro Java and avro-tools share the same upstream repository and specification.
- Avro C++ is the neighboring native binding for C++ programs and code generation.
- Apache Hadoop, Kafka-oriented data pipelines, and other record-processing systems are common consumers of Avro data, though they package their own integrations separately.

### Sources

- <https://avro.apache.org/>
- <https://avro.apache.org/blog/2010/07/15/avro-1.0.0/>
- <https://avro.apache.org/blog/releases/>
- <https://avro.apache.org/docs/>
- <https://github.com/apache/avro>
- source_facts.executables


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - avro-bin - 1.12.0-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: avro-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Apache Avro C utilities (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org
- Debian apt - libavro-dev - 1.12.0-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libavro-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Apache Avro C static library and headers (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org
- Debian apt - libavro24 - 1.12.0-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libavro24 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Apache Avro C shared library (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org
- Nix - avro-c: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/av/avro-c/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - avro-bin - 1.11.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: avro-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Apache Avro C utilities (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org
- Ubuntu apt - libavro-dev - 1.11.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libavro-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Apache Avro C static library and headers (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org
- Ubuntu apt - libavro23 - 1.11.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libavro23 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Apache Avro C shared library (avro-c) | https://avro.apache.org


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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
