# Installer uftp avec Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:uftp
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install uftp
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install uftp
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#uftp
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install uftpd
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:uftp
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.0.3
- **Résumé source:** Secure, reliable, efficient multicast file transfer program
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-22T14:06:32-07:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- uftp (alias)
- uftp_keymgt (alias)
- uftpd (alias)
- uftpproxyd (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 5.0.3
## Historique du projet et usages

UFTP is an encrypted UDP-based multicast file transfer suite. Its official page describes the target use case as secure, reliable, efficient distribution of files to multiple receivers, especially over satellite links where TCP performs poorly because of delay.

### Historique du projet

UFTP is hosted on SourceForge and has a long public release table spanning older 3.x and 4.x lines through the current 5.x line. The 5.x documentation set includes protocol details, server usage, client usage, proxy usage, and key-management utility usage.

The project is more than a single sender binary. The installed suite includes a server, client daemon, proxy daemon, and key-management utility, reflecting the protocol's focus on large fan-out transfers, encryption setup, retransmission, and proxy aggregation.

### Historique d'adoption

The official description is unusually specific about adoption niche: UFTP is useful when the same large file must reach many receivers, and particularly useful across satellite links with two-way communication. That points to broadcast-style and high-latency distribution environments rather than ordinary one-to-one FTP replacement.

The package-manager metadata shows UFTP available through Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE naming. That distribution footprint fits a specialized networking tool that operators may want to install on both senders and receivers without building from source.

### Modes d'utilisation

A UFTP session has announce/register, file-transfer, and completion/confirmation phases. The protocol sends file data as UDP blocks, lets clients report missing blocks with NAKs, and has the server retransmit the missing data.

The server command sends one or more files to one or more receivers via multicast with optional encryption. The documentation exposes operational controls for transmission rate, buffers, multicast TTL, DSCP, encryption algorithms, host lists, proxies, restart files, and logging.

UFTP also supports proxy servers for disjoint networks, NAT traversal, multicast tunneling, and response aggregation, which is central to scaling sender/receiver communication.

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

For package nerds, UFTP is the rare maintained command-line multicast transfer suite. It packages protocol machinery that would otherwise require bespoke operations code: sender, receiver daemon, proxy, key management, OpenSSL/CNG integration, and cross-platform builds.

Its release table and compatibility notes make it useful to distributions because deployments can mix clients, servers, and proxies across versions. The official page notes that version 5.x clients and proxies are backward compatible with 4.x servers.

### Chronologie

- 2010-03-11: UFTP 3.0 release listed on the official download table.
- 2013-04-27: UFTP 4.0 release listed on the official download table.
- 2020-04-22: UFTP 5.0 release listed on the official download table.
- 2023-12-17: UFTP 5.0.3 release and last site update listed on the official page.

### Related projects

- The UFTP protocol documentation references TFMCC/RFC 4654 for congestion control and TLS 1.3/RFC 8446 concepts for key exchange and encryption setup.
- The suite includes `uftp`, `uftpd`, `uftpproxyd`, and `uftp_keymgt` as related command-line programs.

### Sources

- <https://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/ describes the project, satellite-link use case, proxy support, documentation set, platform support, releases, and 5.x/4.x compatibility note.>
- <https://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/protocol.txt documents session phases, retransmission, proxies, congestion control, and encryption setup.>
- <https://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/server_usage.txt documents server command behavior and operational options.>
- source_facts.package-manager lists Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE package names.


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - uftp - 4.10.2-1.1+b4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: uftp from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Encrypted multicast file transfer program | http://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/
- Nix - uftp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/uf/uftp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - uftp - 4.10.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: uftp from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Encrypted multicast file transfer program | http://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/
- Nix - uftpd: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/uf/uftpd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - uftpd - 2.16-1.3: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: uftpd from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A combined TFTP/FTP server | https://troglobit.com/uftpd.html


## Combined YAML source

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