# Installer opendbx avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, pacman

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:opendbx
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install opendbx
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add opendbx
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install opendbx
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#opendbx
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S opendbx
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:opendbx
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.6
- **Résumé source:** Lightweight but extensible database access library in C
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- odbx-sql (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.4.6
## Historique du projet et usages

OpenDBX is a small C database-access abstraction layer built around a single API over multiple native database client libraries. Its niche is the classic systems-programming problem of letting a C application switch among SQL backends without carrying separate code paths for each driver.

### Historique du projet

The project was developed by Norbert Sendetzky and documented on Linuxnetworks as a lightweight, extensible C library. A 2006 Linux.com announcement for OpenDBX 1.0 described that release as a stability and completeness milestone for a clean open-source API over native database libraries.

### Historique d'adoption

OpenDBX reached Unix packaging ecosystems rather than becoming a dominant database layer. Debian split the source package into a core library, development package, and backend packages for Firebird, MSSQL, MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL, SQLite 3, and Sybase, which shows the library's intended deployment model: install only the backends an application needs.

### Modes d'utilisation

Developers use OpenDBX when they want C code to issue SQL through one compact interface while still linking against native database client libraries underneath. The bundled `odbx-sql` command-line tool gives packagers and operators a direct way to exercise the abstraction layer.

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

OpenDBX is interesting because it is a pre-ORM, C-level answer to database portability. The package layout exposes the practical dependency problem: the small common library is simple, but useful distribution requires backend-specific binary packages tied to the target database clients.

### Chronologie

- 2006: OpenDBX 1.0 was announced as the first major stable milestone for the C API.
- 2007: A development release added a prototype ODBC backend, indicating continued work on broadening the backend set.

### Related projects

- The project overlaps historically with other low-level database abstraction layers such as unixODBC and libdbi, but OpenDBX's docs emphasize a small native-client wrapper rather than a full ORM or SQL builder.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/opendbx>
- <https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/libopendbx>
- <https://www.linux.com/news/opendbx-unified-database-api-and-c-library/>
- <https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - opendbx: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/opendbx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - libopendbx - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libopendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - libopendbxplus - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libopendbxplus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - opendbx - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - opendbx-backend-mysql - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-mysql from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - opendbx-backend-postgres - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-postgres from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - opendbx-backend-sqlite - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-sqlite from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- apk - opendbx-dev - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer (development files) | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Lightweight but extensible database access library written in C | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-devel - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-firebird - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-firebird from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Firebird backend - provides firebird support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-mssql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-mssql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MSSQL backend - provides mssql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-mysql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-mysql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MySQL backend - provides mysql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-postgresql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-postgresql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | PostgreSQL backend - provides postgresql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-sqlite - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-sqlite from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | SQLite 3 backend - provides sqlite3 support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
- dnf - opendbx-sqlite2 - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-sqlite2 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | SQLite 2 backend - provides sqlite2 support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX


## Combined YAML source

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