# orbuculum を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

orbuculum のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:orbuculum
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install orbuculum
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#orbuculum
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:orbuculum
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 2.2.0
- **ソース概要:** Arm Cortex-M SWO/SWV Demux and Postprocess
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/orbcode/orbuculum>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/orbcode/orbuculum>
- **最終更新:** 2026-06-18T02:29:00-04:00
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- orbcat (エイリアス)
- orbdump (エイリアス)
- orbfifo (エイリアス)
- orblcd (エイリアス)
- orbmortem (エイリアス)
- orbprofile (エイリアス)
- orbstat (エイリアス)
- orbtop (エイリアス)
- orbtrace (エイリアス)
- orbuculum (エイリアス)
- orbzmq (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 2.2.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Orbuculum is a suite of host-side tools for decoding and presenting trace output from Arm Cortex-M CPUs. The Orbcode project describes it as software for making otherwise invisible trace flows visible, starting with SWO and expanding to 1-, 2-, and 4-bit parallel trace when paired with ORBTrace mini or other trace capture hardware.

### プロジェクトの歴史

Orbuculum began around Single Wire Output and Serial Wire Viewer workflows for Cortex-M debugging. The upstream documentation says it originally supported only the SWO pin, then added support for parallel trace through ORBTrace mini and other interfaces such as JTrace.

The 2.2.0 README describes a larger internal shift from a legacy chip-like stream protocol to `orbflow`, an extensible packet-oriented protocol that represents probe data more compactly. It also notes added CPU families, improved client application handling, improved stats and timing, a simplified communications subsystem, and early ETM4 support.

### 採用の歴史

Orbuculum is niche but meaningful in embedded debugging. The upstream page lists support for Black Magic Debug Probe, SEGGER J-Link, generic USB TTL serial interfaces, FTDI high-speed serial interfaces, OpenOCD, PyOCD, ice40-HX8K and ECP5 parallel-trace boards, raw SWO files, and TCP sources that expose SWO.

The ORBTrace mini page links the hardware and software sides of the ecosystem: ORBTrace mini is an open-source debug and parallel trace interface for Cortex-M microcontrollers, and Orbuculum is the host suite used to exploit the captured trace stream.

### 使われ方

Embedded developers run `orbuculum` as the mux that connects to a trace probe and exposes a network interface, then attach tools such as `orbcat` for ITM channel text, `orbdump` for raw SWO capture, `orbtop` for live activity views, `orbstat` for analysis and KCacheGrind output, `orbmortem` for post-mortem analysis, and `orbtrace` for ORBTrace FPGA configuration.

The practical use case is low-intrusion insight into firmware execution: text channels, program-counter samples, performance analysis, and crash reconstruction without relying only on breakpoints or serial logging.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Orbuculum matters to package nerds because it packages a specialized embedded trace workflow as Unix-style command-line tools. The formula exposes many executables, each handling one part of trace capture, demultiplexing, viewing, statistics, or post-processing.

### タイムライン

- 2023-06-30: The changelog records Orbuculum 2.1.0 with timestamping work, a move to Meson/Ninja, stream abstraction cleanup, option renames, ORBTrace SWO support, and reliability fixes.
- 2024-10-23: The release page for 2.2.0 describes orbflow protocol, ORBTrace Mini gateware 1.4.0 compatibility, FreeBSD support, and experimental ETM4 work.

### Related projects

- Orbuculum is part of the Orbcode ecosystem alongside ORBTrace mini hardware. It also interoperates with common embedded debug tools such as Black Magic Probe, OpenOCD, PyOCD, and SEGGER J-Link.

### ソース

- <https://github.com/orbcode/orbuculum>
- <https://github.com/orbcode/orbuculum/blob/main/CHANGES.md>
- <https://orbcode.org/orbtrace-mini/>
- <https://orbcode.org/orbuculum/>
- <https://pyocd.io/docs/swo_swv.html>


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - orbuculum: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/or/orbuculum/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/orbuculum.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/orbuculum.yml)


## ソース

- 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
