# Install acpica with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, pacman, zypper, dnf, chocolatey

OS-independent implementation of the ACPI specification. Version 20260408 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-26. Also installable with apk: sudo apk add acpica.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:acpica
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install acpica
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install acpica
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add acpica
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: acpica from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S acpica
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install acpica
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install acpica-tools
```

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

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install iasl
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: iasl from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','i2pd'

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:acpica
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 20260408
- **Source summary:** OS-independent implementation of the ACPI specification
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/acpica/acpica>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/acpica/acpica>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-26T23:37:47-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- acpibin (alias)
- acpidump (alias)
- acpiexamples (alias)
- acpiexec (alias)
- acpihelp (alias)
- acpisrc (alias)
- acpixtract (alias)
- iasl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 20260408
## Project history and usage

ACPICA is the ACPI Component Architecture project, an open-source, operating-system-independent implementation of the ACPI specification. It includes kernel-resident ACPI components and user-space utilities such as iASL, acpidump, acpiexec, acpixtract, and related tools.

### Project history

Intel's official ACPICA overview describes ACPICA as a reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface specification, written in ANSI C for portability across 32-bit and 64-bit operating-system environments. The same overview says ACPICA contains both kernel-mode and user-mode components.

The official download page says ACPICA is maintained in Git, with commits made as individual fixes and features are completed, and provides source packages, makefiles, utilities, and release logs. The GitHub repository was created in 2011 and mirrors the source tree with documents, source, tests, and release tags.

### Adoption history

ACPICA has an unusually direct path from upstream package to operating-system internals. Intel's overview says ACPICA updates for Linux are provided periodically in patch form and that the code is converted and integrated into the Linux kernel source. The input package-manager facts show the user-space tools packaged across Homebrew, Alpine, Chocolatey, DNF, MacPorts, Arch, and openSUSE.

### How it is used

Package users most often encounter ACPICA through command-line utilities: iASL compiles and disassembles ACPI Source Language and AML, acpidump obtains ACPI tables, acpixtract extracts tables, and acpiexec helps exercise AML execution. The GitHub source tree's compiler help documents iASL options for compiling, disassembling, generating listings, and creating table templates.

### Why package nerds care

ACPICA matters to package nerds because it sits at the boundary between firmware specifications, kernel enablement, and user-space diagnostics. Packaging it gives developers and distro maintainers reproducible tools for inspecting, compiling, and debugging ACPI tables without depending on a full kernel tree.

### Timeline

- 2011-08-08: GitHub repository created.
- 2015-06-16: GitHub tag R061615 appears in the repository tag list.
- 2021: Intel overview references ACPICA version 20210331 in documentation text.
- 2024-12-12: ACPICA release R2024_12_12 published on GitHub.
- 2026-04-08: ACPICA Release version 20260408 published.

### Related projects

- Related projects include the ACPI specification, Linux ACPI subsystem work, firmware/BIOS development workflows, iASL, acpidump, acpiexec, and ACPI table debugging tools.

### Sources

- Intel overview, download and documentation pages, GitHub repository/release metadata, and source_facts.package-manager.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- apk - acpica - 20250807-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: acpica from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | ACPI Component Architecture utilities | https://www.acpica.org
- apk - iasl - 20250807-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: iasl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | ACPI ASL compiler | https://www.acpica.org
- pacman - acpica - 20251212-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: acpica from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | ACPI tools, including Intel ACPI Source Language compiler | https://acpica.org
- zypper - acpica - 20260408-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: acpica from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A set of tools to display and debug BIOS ACPI tables | https://acpica.org
- MacPorts - acpica: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/acpica/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - acpica-tools - 20260408-2.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: acpica-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables | https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/acpica/overview.html
- Chocolatey - iasl: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: iasl from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','i2pd'


## Combined YAML source

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