# Installer botan avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, pacman, zypper

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:botan
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install botan
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install botan
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: security/botan/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install botan
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install botan
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: botan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S botan
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install Botan
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:botan
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.12.0
- **Résumé source:** Cryptographic algorithms and formats library in C++
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://botan.randombit.net/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/randombit/botan>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-22T14:02:54-07:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- botan (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 3.12.0
## Historique du projet et usages

Botan is a permissively licensed C++ cryptography toolkit with a library-first identity and a substantial command-line companion. In package-manager culture it occupies the same broad territory as OpenSSL, libsodium, and Crypto++, but with a C++ API, modular build controls, Python/C FFI surfaces, and an intentionally broad algorithm catalog.

### Historique du projet

The current public development home is the randombit/botan GitHub repository, created in March 2013, while the official documentation describes Botan as a C++ cryptography library focused on production cryptography. Its handbook frames the project around secure distributed systems, constant-time programming, test coverage, side-channel analysis, safe defaults, portability to modern systems, and post-quantum readiness.

Botan 3 became the active release line, with the upstream README documenting quarterly Botan3 minor releases. Botan2 reached end of life on 2025-01-01, with the final Botan2 release listed as 2.19.5 from 2024-07-08.

### Historique d'adoption

Botan is distributed by major Unix-like package systems, including Homebrew, Debian-family distributions, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, and openSUSE according to the package facts and the upstream README's distribution note. Its adoption is less about a single dominant CLI and more about being a reusable cryptographic substrate for C++ applications that want TLS, X.509, PKCS#11, TPM, password hashing, and newer post-quantum primitives without binding themselves to OpenSSL APIs.

The project also exposes C, Python, and third-party language bindings, which makes it useful to packagers who want one audited native cryptography implementation to serve multiple language ecosystems.

### Modes d'utilisation

The installed `botan` executable exposes many library functions in shell form: hashing, HMAC, password hashing, symmetric encryption, public-key operations, certificate handling, TLS-related tooling, and other cryptographic utilities. The library side is used by applications that need a C++ cryptography API with configurable modules and platform certificate-store support.

For package users, Botan is commonly installed as a development dependency as well as a CLI utility; its package significance comes from headers, libraries, ABI concerns, and feature selection as much as from the command-line binary.

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

Botan is a classic package-nerd library: it is security-sensitive, ABI-sensitive, heavily tested, and exposed through many downstream packages. Its release notes read like infrastructure maintenance, with CVEs, certificate-path behavior, compiler support, optimized CPU code paths, TLS conformance, and algorithm additions all mattering to downstream maintainers.

It is also notable as a modern C++ crypto stack that deliberately includes post-quantum algorithms and side-channel testing in its project goals, making it a useful barometer for where general-purpose cryptography libraries are moving.

### Chronologie

- 2013: Public GitHub repository created for randombit/botan.
- 2024: Botan 2.19.5 released as the final Botan2 series release.
- 2025: Botan2 reached end of life on January 1.
- 2026: Botan 3.12.0 released with TLS, X.509, performance, and security fixes.

### Related projects

- OpenSSL is the most common comparison point for everyday command-line crypto and TLS tooling.
- Crypto++ is a related C++ cryptography library in the same packaging space.
- libsodium is a related security library with a narrower, opinionated API surface.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/randombit/botan>
- <https://botan.randombit.net/handbook/cli.html>
- <https://botan.randombit.net/handbook/goals.html>
- <https://botan.randombit.net/news.html>
- <https://github.com/randombit/botan>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour botan. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.


## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - botan - 3.7.1+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: botan from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | multiplatform crypto library (3.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Debian apt - libbotan-2-19 - 2.19.5+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libbotan-2-19 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Debian apt - libbotan-2-dev - 2.19.5+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libbotan-2-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Debian apt - libbotan-2-doc - 2.19.5+dfsg-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libbotan-2-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Ubuntu apt - botan - 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: botan from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libbotan-2-19 - 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libbotan-2-19 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libbotan-2-dev - 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libbotan-2-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libbotan-2-doc - 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libbotan-2-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version) | https://botan.randombit.net/
- Ubuntu apt - python3-botan - 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-botan from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | multiplatform crypto library (2.x version), Python3 module | https://botan.randombit.net/
- dnf - botan - 1.10.17-56.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: botan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Crypto library written in C++ | http://botan.randombit.net/
- dnf - botan-devel - 1.10.17-56.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: botan-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for botan | http://botan.randombit.net/
- dnf - botan-doc - 1.10.17-56.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: botan-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Documentation for botan | http://botan.randombit.net/
- dnf - python3-botan - 1.10.17-56.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: python3-botan from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Python3 bindings for botan | http://botan.randombit.net/
- pacman - botan - 3.12.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: botan from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Crypto library written in C++ | https://botan.randombit.net/
- zypper - Botan - 3.11.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: Botan from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A C++ Crypto Library | https://botan.randombit.net
- zypper - Botan-doc - 3.11.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: Botan-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Documentation of Botan | https://botan.randombit.net


## Combined YAML source

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