# Install iat with Homebrew, apt, Nix
Converts many CD-ROM image formats to ISO9660. Version 0.1.7 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install iat.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:iat
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install iat
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install iat
```
Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: iat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#iat
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ia/iat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:iat
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.7
- **Source summary:** Converts many CD-ROM image formats to ISO9660
- **Homepage:**
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- iat (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.7
## Project history and usage
Iso9660 Analyzer Tool, packaged as `iat`, is a small C command-line utility for detecting several CD-ROM image container formats and converting them into ISO-9660 images.
### Project history
The preserved SourceForge project page identifies the BerliOS-era project as alpha-status software, registered on 2006-06-01, with a 2014-06-09 project update. Its description emphasizes detection of image-file structure rather than a large suite of disk-authoring features.
### Adoption history
iat survived mostly through distribution packaging. Debian carries it in the `otherosfs` section, describes support for BIN, MDF, PDI, CDI, NRG, and B5I input formats, and publishes source packages; Homebrew also packages version 0.1.7 for macOS and Linux users.
### How it is used
The package fits the rescue-and-conversion corner of Unix tooling: users install a tiny CLI when they need to turn legacy CD-ROM image formats into a plain ISO-9660 image that other tools can mount, inspect, or burn.
### Why package nerds care
iat is interesting less for active upstream development than for preservation. It is a BerliOS-origin utility that remains reachable through SourceForge, Debian, Nix, Ubuntu, and Homebrew metadata, showing how small file-format converters persist in package ecosystems long after their hosting history changes.
### Timeline
- 2006: SourceForge records the project registration date.
- 2014: SourceForge records a project update.
- 0.1.7: Debian and Homebrew package the same upstream version.
### Related projects
- Debian lists similar or adjacent image and filesystem packages such as acetoneiso, genisoimage, fuseiso, and libcdio-related packages.
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## Security Notes
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Debian apt - iat - 0.1.7-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: iat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Converts many CD-ROM image formats to iso9660 | https://www.berlios.de/software/iso9660-analyzer-tool/
- Nix - iat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ia/iat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - iat - 0.1.3-7.1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: iat from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Converts many CD-ROM image formats to iso9660
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/iat.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/iat.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