# Installer base16384 avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de base16384 pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:base16384
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install base16384
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install base16384
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: base16384 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#base16384
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ba/base16384/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:base16384
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.3.2
- **Résumé source:** Encode binary files to printable utf16be
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/fumiama/base16384>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/fumiama/base16384>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- base16384 (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.3.2
## Historique du projet et usages

base16384 is a binary-to-text encoding tool and library that maps binary data into printable UTF-16BE text using 16,384 Chinese characters. It is intentionally framed by its README as a higher-radix cousin of base64.

### Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created in April 2020. The README describes the format as using characters from U+4E00 through U+8DFF as the alphabet, with a remainder marker for incomplete final chunks.

The project is written as a C/CMake command-line utility and library, and the current CMake metadata identifies version 2.3.2 with a September 2025 version date. The README also notes use of Cosmopolitan for cross-platform binary compilation.

### Historique d'adoption

base16384 has crossed beyond a single Homebrew formula: the README documents installation from Debian Bookworm or higher, Homebrew, an Ubuntu PPA, OpenWrt packages, and Arch AUR. The input package metadata also lists Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and Homebrew package names.

The README lists ports and bindings in Go, Python, Android, TypeScript, Lua, C#, Rust, Swift, Dart, and MoonBit, which is unusual for a niche encoding experiment and suggests adoption by developers interested in the format itself rather than only the original CLI.

### Modes d'utilisation

The command exposes encode and decode modes, can read from stdin and write to stdout, and includes options for timing, UTF-16BE byte-order marker behavior, and checksums. Examples in the README show piping through iconv so encoded UTF-16BE output can be displayed as UTF-8 text.

There is no documented user configuration file or credentials store; behavior is controlled by command-line flags.

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

base16384 is package-nerd catnip because it is a concrete reminder that base-N encodings are constrained by transport assumptions, not just math. It asks what happens when the transport can carry a large printable Unicode alphabet rather than ASCII.

Its packaging breadth is the notable part: a very specific encoding utility appears in general-purpose OS package indexes, language ports, and embedded/open-source package sets.

### Chronologie

- 2020: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2020s: README documented package availability across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu PPA, OpenWrt, and Arch AUR.
- 2020s: README accumulated ports and bindings in multiple languages.
- 2025: CMake metadata identified version 2.3.2 dated Sep 4th 2025.

### Related projects

- base64 is the older and far more common binary-to-text encoding explicitly used as the comparison point in the README.
- Cosmopolitan is referenced by the README as the cross-platform binary compilation tool used by the project.
- The README lists related base16384 implementations for Go, Python, Android, TypeScript, Lua, C#, Rust, Swift, Dart, and MoonBit.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/fumiama/base16384>
- <https://github.com/fumiama/base16384#readme>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fumiama/base16384/master/CMakeLists.txt>
- source_facts.package-manager


## 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 - base16384 - 2.3.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: base16384 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Encode binary files to printable utf16be | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384
- Debian apt - libbase16384-2 - 2.3.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libbase16384-2 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Dynamic library of base16384 | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384
- Debian apt - libbase16384-dev - 2.3.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libbase16384-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Header and archive of base16384 | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384
- Nix - base16384: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ba/base16384/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - base16384 - 2.2.5-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: base16384 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Encode binary files to printable utf16be | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384
- Ubuntu apt - libbase16384-2 - 2.2.5-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libbase16384-2 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Dynamic library of base16384 | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384
- Ubuntu apt - libbase16384-dev - 2.2.5-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libbase16384-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Header and archive of base16384 | https://github.com/fumiama/base16384


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/base16384.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/base16384.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
