# Installer biodiff avec Homebrew, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:biodiff
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install biodiff
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#biodiff
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S biodiff
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install biodiff
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/biodiff
```

  Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/biodiff.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id 8051Enthusiast.biodiff -e
```

  Preuve: Windows Package Manager source index: 8051Enthusiast.biodiff from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:biodiff
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Résumé source:** Hex diff viewer using alignment algorithms from biology
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- biodiff (alias)
- git-biodiff (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.2.1
## Historique du projet et usages

biodiff is an interactive binary diff viewer that borrows biological sequence-alignment algorithms to line up similar regions of two binary files.

### Historique du projet

The 8051Enthusiast/biodiff repository was created in May 2021. The README describes the tool as a binary diff viewer that displays two files side by side, pads missing bytes, and uses alignment algorithms from WFA2 or rust-bio, libraries normally associated with DNA sequence alignment.

### Historique d'adoption

biodiff reached a 1.0.0 release in February 2022 and a 1.2.x series in April 2024. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, Nix, Arch/pacman, Scoop, Winget, and openSUSE/zypper, showing adoption across Unix, Windows package-manager, and Rust-adjacent channels.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run `biodiff file_a file_b` for a terminal hex view, then switch between unaligned and aligned views, align regions near the cursor, do global or semiglobal alignment for smaller inputs, and optionally print diffs directly with `biodiff --print`.

The README notes that global alignment has quadratic time and space costs and is not a good fit for large files, which is a useful package-level expectation for people comparing firmware chunks or binary formats.

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

biodiff is interesting because it smuggles a bioinformatics idea into reverse-engineering tooling. The package name is literal: binary diffing improved by sequence alignment.

### Chronologie

- 2021: Repository created and first v0.1.2 release published.
- 2022: v1.0.0 released.
- 2023: v1.1.0 released.
- 2024: v1.2.1 released.

### Related projects

- biodiff is related to WFA2-lib, rust-bio, cursive, hex viewers, binary diff tools, and `git difftool` workflows through its `git-biodiff` executable.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff>
- <https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff/main/README.md>
- 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


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Linux: $BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR/config.json, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/biodiff/config.json, ~/.config/biodiff/config.json
- macOS: $BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR/config.json, ~/Library/Application Support/biodiff/config.json
- Windows: %BIODIFF_CONFIG_DIR%\config.json, %APPDATA%\biodiff\config.json
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - biodiff: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/biodiff/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - biodiff - 1.2.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: biodiff from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Hex diff viewer using alignment algorithms from biology | https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/biodiff
- zypper - biodiff - 1.2.1-1.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: biodiff from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A tool for binary diffing | https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/
- Scoop - main/biodiff: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/biodiff.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - 8051Enthusiast.biodiff: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: 8051Enthusiast.biodiff from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
