# Installer libtrace avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:libtrace
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libtrace
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#libtrace
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:libtrace
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.0.34
- **Résumé source:** Library for trace processing supporting multiple inputs
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/LibtraceTeam/libtrace>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/LibtraceTeam/libtrace>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- traceconvert (alias)
- tracediff (alias)
- traceends (alias)
- tracefilter (alias)
- tracemcast (alias)
- tracemerge (alias)
- tracepktdump (alias)
- tracereplay (alias)
- tracereport (alias)
- tracertstats (alias)
- tracesplit (alias)
- tracesplit_dir (alias)
- tracestats (alias)
- tracesummary (alias)
- tracetop (alias)
- tracetopends (alias)
- traceucast (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.0.34
## Historique du projet et usages

libtrace is a C library and suite of trace tools for processing live and offline network packet captures across multiple trace and interface formats.

### Historique du projet

The libtrace README states that the code was originally developed by the University of Waikato WAND research group and was primarily designed for the real-time interface to the Waikato DAG Capture Point software. It later grew beyond that original environment to support a range of trace and interface formats.

The repository records copyright for University of Waikato code through 2022 and for later code and documentation contributed by Shane Alcock from 2023 through 2026. The 4.0 series introduced a parallel packet-processing API for multithreaded workloads.

### Historique d'adoption

libtrace's adoption is strongest in network measurement, packet-trace analysis, and research tooling rather than broad desktop use. Its command-line utilities, including traceconvert, tracefilter, tracemerge, tracereport, tracesplit, tracestats, and tracesummary, made it useful as both a library and a practical trace-processing toolkit.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users employ libtrace to read, filter, convert, replay, summarize, and report on traffic captures from offline files or live interfaces. Developers link against the library when they need one API over multiple capture formats and, in the 4.0 line, when they need parallel packet processing.

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

For packet-analysis package nerds, libtrace is interesting because it is not just another pcap wrapper: it comes from a university measurement environment, carries a family of trace* command-line tools, and preserves support for specialized capture systems alongside common packet formats.

### Chronologie

- 2007-2022: University of Waikato copyright range shown in the README for code through version 4.0.20.
- 2017: GitHub releases page lists libtrace 4.0.2 as a public 4.0-series release.
- 2023: README records Shane Alcock copyright for newer code and documentation beginning in 2023.
- 2026: GitHub releases page lists Libtrace 4.0.33 on June 10, 2026.

### Related projects

- Waikato DAG Capture Point software is the original environment named by the README.
- libpacketdump, wandio, libwandder, and related LibtraceTeam repositories sit in the same packet-trace tooling ecosystem.
- pcap-oriented tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark are adjacent consumers or producers of traffic capture data, though libtrace focuses on programmatic trace processing.

### Sources

- <http://www.wand.net.nz/>
- <https://github.com/LibtraceTeam/libtrace>
- <https://github.com/LibtraceTeam/libtrace/releases>
- <https://github.com/LibtraceTeam/libtrace/wiki/ChangeLog>


## 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 - libtrace: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libtrace/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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