# Install jack with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, MacPorts, zypper, pacman Audio Connection Kit. Version 1.9.22 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install jack. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:jack ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install jack ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install jack ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: audio/jack/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add jack ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jack from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install jack ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: jack from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install jack ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: jack from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S jack2 ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: jack2 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - Ubuntu apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install jackd ``` Evidence: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: jackd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install jack ``` Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: jack from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','intel-network-drivers-win10' ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:jack - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.9.22 - **Source summary:** Audio Connection Kit - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T01:26:52+09:00 - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - jackd (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 1.9.22 ## Project history and usage JACK Audio Connection Kit is a professional sound server API and daemon family for low-latency routing of audio and MIDI between applications. It is one of the defining pieces of Linux and Unix-like pro-audio infrastructure. ### Project history The JACK project site describes JACK as an API plus daemon implementations for real-time, low-latency audio and MIDI connections between applications. The download page documents the split source repositories for JACK1 and JACK2 and gives jack2 as the repository browsed for the JACK2 tree. The GitHub jackaudio/jack2 repository was created in 2012, but JACK as a project predates that repository history. In the maintained release stream, JACK2 1.9.x releases continued through the 2020s with work on macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Python build compatibility, ARM ringbuffer safety, and separation of example tools. ### Adoption history JACK became standard plumbing for low-latency audio workflows on Linux because it let synthesizers, DAWs, effects processors, recorders, and MIDI tools connect as a graph rather than each owning the audio device. Its package metadata spans Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, MacPorts, Arch, Chocolatey, and openSUSE, reflecting cross-platform packaging of a historically Unix-centered audio stack. The 2022 JACK1/JACK2 release note is a useful adoption marker: JACK1 was described as continuing in maintenance mode while JACK2 carried official FreeBSD support and ongoing platform work. ### How it is used Users run jackd or compatible session tools to create a low-latency audio server, then connect JACK-aware applications through ports. The project site frames the common use case as sending one application's audio output to another application, splitting it to multiple consumers, and recording the result. ### Why package nerds care JACK is significant because it is a package-manager dependency that changes what an audio workstation can be. Installing it adds a shared routing substrate used by many separate packages, so distribution maintainers care about ABI compatibility, realtime permissions, drivers, example tools, and how JACK coexists with ALSA, PulseAudio, and PipeWire-era systems. ### Timeline - 2000s: JACK became core infrastructure for Unix-like low-latency audio workflows. - 2012: jackaudio/jack1 and jackaudio/jack2 GitHub repositories were created. - 2021: JACK2 1.9.18 and 1.9.19 releases focused on platform and API fixes. - 2022: JACK1 0.126.0 and JACK2 1.9.20 releases moved examples and tools toward a separate repository and added official FreeBSD support for JACK2. - 2023: JACK2 1.9.22 removed bundled example clients/tools and fixed Python 3.11+ build compatibility. ### Related projects - Related projects include JACK1, JACK2, jack-example-tools, jack2-releases, QjackCtl, ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire, and JACK-aware audio applications. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal - formula declares a Homebrew service ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - jack - 4~git20241202.3410dc1-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: jack from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Rip and encode CDs with one command | https://github.com/jack-cli-cd-ripper/jack - apk - jack - 1.9.22-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jack from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | The Jack Audio Connection Kit | https://jackaudio.org/ - apk - jack-dbus - 1.9.22-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jack-dbus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Jack D-Bus launcher | https://jackaudio.org/ - apk - jack-dev - 1.9.22-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jack-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | The Jack Audio Connection Kit (development files) | https://jackaudio.org/ - apk - jack-doc - 1.9.22-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jack-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | The Jack Audio Connection Kit (documentation) | https://jackaudio.org/ - pacman - jack2 - 1.9.22-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: jack2 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | The JACK low-latency audio server | https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2 - pacman - pipewire-jack - 1:1.6.8-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: pipewire-jack from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK replacement | https://pipewire.org - zypper - jack - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: jack from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack-Audio Connection Kit | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - jack-32bit - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: jack-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack-Audio Connection Kit | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - jack-dbus - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: jack-dbus from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack Audio Connection Kit D-Bus support | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjack-devel - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjack-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Development package for jack | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjack-devel-32bit - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjack-devel-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Development package for jack | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjack0 - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjack0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack Audio Connection Kit Library | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjack0-32bit - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjack0-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack Audio Connection Kit Library | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjacknet0 - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjacknet0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack Audio Connection Kit Library | https://jackaudio.org/ - zypper - libjacknet0-32bit - 1.9.22-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libjacknet0-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Jack Audio Connection Kit Library | https://jackaudio.org/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jack.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jack.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