# Install binkd with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

TCP/IP FTN Mailer. Version 1.0.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install binkd.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:binkd
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install binkd
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install binkd
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install binkd
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:binkd
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Source summary:** TCP/IP FTN Mailer
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pgul/binkd>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pgul/binkd>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- binkd (alias)
- binkd-1.0.4 (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.4
## Project history and usage

binkd is a Fidonet Technology Network mailer that transfers Fido-style mail over TCP/IP, preserving a classic bulletin-board-network workflow on Internet transport.

### Project history

The README describes binkd as a Fidonet mailer for TCP/IP networks and names Dmitry Maloff and other contributors as authors. The GitHub repository is a later home for older sources: its `start` tag records that the sources were under CVS again in January 2001, and the repository itself was created on GitHub in April 2015.

The manual page, dated June 2012, documents binkd as a program for transferring files between two Fidonet systems over TCP/IP, with BSO and ASO outbound formats and a required configuration file argument.

### Adoption history

binkd's adoption is niche but durable: the supplied package facts list Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Ubuntu packages, showing that it remains packaged for operators maintaining Fidonet-style mail systems long after the BBS era.

### How it is used

Operators run binkd with a config file, optionally as a daemon, inetd service, client-only poller, or server-only process. The README installation notes tell users to edit the sample configuration and preserve the installed binkd.conf-dist as a template.

### Why package nerds care

binkd is package-nerd archaeology with live users: it packages an FTN mail transport that depends on old network conventions, sample configs, spool layouts, and daemon behavior rather than the usual modern web-service stack.

### Timeline

- 2001: Repository tag records binkd sources returning to CVS.
- 2012: binkd.8 manual page documents TCP/IP Fidonet transfer behavior.
- 2014: binkd 1.0.4 release commit is tagged.
- 2015: GitHub repository is created.

### Related projects

- The manual names ifmail and BinkleyTerm as related mailers that use Bink-style outbound formats. binkd also belongs to the broader Fidonet and FTN tooling family.

### Sources

- GitHub API reports repository and tag commit dates.
- GitHub README documents purpose, installation, old project locations, authors, and documentation links.
- binkd.8 documents operation, configuration-file use, BSO/ASO relationship, and manual date.
- input.source_facts.package-manager lists package-manager availability.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /usr/local/etc/binkd.conf-dist
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - binkd - 1.1a-115-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: binkd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | FidoTech TCP/IP mailer
- Ubuntu apt - binkd - 1.1a-115-1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: binkd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | FidoTech TCP/IP mailer
- MacPorts - binkd: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/binkd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph