# Installer libdivecomputer avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:libdivecomputer
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libdivecomputer
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install libdivecomputer
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#libdivecomputer
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:libdivecomputer
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.0
- **Résumé source:** Library for communication with various dive computers
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.libdivecomputer.org/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- dctool (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.9.0
## Historique du projet et usages

libdivecomputer is a cross-platform C library and utility set for talking to dive computers over serial, USB, USB HID, IrDA, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth Low Energy transports. Its official site frames it as an open source compatibility layer across many dive-computer manufacturers rather than as an end-user dive log application.

### Historique du projet

The project grew around the practical problem of extracting dive profiles from vendor-specific dive computers on Unix-like systems, Windows, mobile platforms, and BSDs. The repository README points to the libdivecomputer site and a SourceForge project page, reflecting the project's older open-source hosting history before GitHub became the main development surface.

The public tag history shows a 0.2.0 release in September 2012, followed by 0.3.0 in February 2013, 0.4.x in 2013-2014, 0.5.0 in September 2016, 0.6.0 in November 2017, 0.7.0 in May 2021, 0.8.0 in May 2023, and 0.9.0 in June 2025.

### Historique d'adoption

libdivecomputer's adoption comes from being infrastructure: applications and scripts can use one library instead of maintaining per-device protocols for Aeris, Aqualung, Cressi, Mares, Oceanic, Shearwater, Suunto, Uwatec, and many other supported manufacturers. Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix packaging make that hardware-support layer easy to install for developers and technically inclined divers.

### Modes d'utilisation

The documentation describes a conventional autotools build on Unix platforms and points users to a manual, manpages, examples, backend status, driver notes, roadmap material, and old API design discussions. The packaged `dctool` utility is the command-line face of the library for testing communication and retrieving data.

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

For package maintainers, libdivecomputer is interesting because it turns a messy hardware matrix into one LGPL library with optional platform transport details. It is the kind of package that quietly matters: most users meet it indirectly through dive-log software, but distribution packaging determines whether niche USB/Bluetooth dive-computer workflows work out of the box.

### Chronologie

- 2012: v0.2.0 tag published on GitHub.
- 2013: v0.3.0 and v0.4.0 tags published.
- 2016: v0.5.0 tag published.
- 2017: v0.6.0 tag published.
- 2021: v0.7.0 tag published.
- 2023: v0.8.0 release published.
- 2025: v0.9.0 release published.

### Related projects

- The repository README identifies the older SourceForge project page as part of the project's public footprint. The documentation also points to bundled examples and manpages, while the official site lists the supported device families that drive the library's backend work.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer>
- <https://github.com/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer/releases>
- <https://github.com/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer/tags>
- <https://www.libdivecomputer.org/>
- <https://www.libdivecomputer.org/documentation.html>


## Notes de sécurité

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- library-like package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - libdivecomputer: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libdivecomputer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - libdivecomputer: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/libdivecomputer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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