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Install libfabric with Homebrew, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt

OpenFabrics libfabric. Version 2.6.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install libfabric-bin.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install libfabric

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install libfabric

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · libfabric · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#libfabric

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/li/libfabric/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S libfabric

Arch Linux sync databases · libfabric · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libfabric

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libfabric · source: download.opensuse.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libfabric-bin

Debian stable package indexes · libfabric-bin · source: deb.debian.org

overview

Package summary

OpenFabrics libfabric

Commands and aliases

  • fi_info
  • fi_mon_sampler
  • fi_pingpong
  • fi_strerror

history

Project history and usage

libfabric, also called OpenFabrics Interfaces, is a low-level communications library for high-performance parallel and distributed applications. It abstracts high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics behind provider implementations while exposing APIs tuned for HPC middleware.

Project history

The OFI Working Group, a subgroup of the OpenFabrics Alliance, develops libfabric as an open framework for fabric communication services. The project's release notes identify version 1.0.0 on May 3, 2015 as the initial public release, with PSM, sockets, usNIC, and verbs providers.

The project evolved from a 1.x provider framework into a 2.x series while retaining the same role: giving MPI, SHMEM, PGAS runtimes, and distributed systems software a common user-space API across InfiniBand, Ethernet/RDMA, provider-specific HPC networks, and cloud fabrics.

Adoption history

Open MPI documentation treats OFI and libfabric as interchangeable in practice and lists provider-backed networks such as AWS EFA, Cisco usNIC, Cray uGNI, Omni-Path, and HPE Slingshot. That made the package a common dependency on HPC systems and cloud HPC images.

Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix, Ubuntu, and SUSE-family packages ship libfabric or libfabric-bin tooling such as fi_info, fi_pingpong, and fi_strerror for discovering providers and testing fabric paths.

How it is used

Users install libfabric directly for fi_info and fabtests, or indirectly through MPI and communication runtimes. Developers use its man pages and provider model to choose endpoint types, completion queues, address vectors, memory registration behavior, and transport-specific capabilities.

Why package nerds care

libfabric is package-nerd significant because it is the dependency that lets one MPI build speak many fast networks. It hides vendor transport churn behind provider packages while still preserving enough detail for HPC performance tuning.

Timeline

  • 2015-05-03: libfabric 1.0.0 initial public release with PSM, sockets, usNIC, and verbs providers.
  • 2020-08: OpenFabrics mailing list announced libfabric 1.11.0 and fabtests.
  • 2024-12: OpenFabrics announced libfabric 2.0.0.
  • 2026-06-22: libfabric 2.6.0 release notes record continued provider and core development.

Related projects

  • Related projects include Open MPI's OFI MTL/BTL support, fabtests, OpenFabrics Alliance work, AWS EFA, Cisco usNIC, HPE Slingshot, Omni-Path, InfiniBand verbs, and HPC communication runtimes.

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:library-like

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
fi_infoexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
fi_mon_samplerexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
fi_pingpongexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
fi_strerrorexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version2.6.0
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:libfabric
Version2.6.0
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric
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Servicenone declared

source database matches

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Debian apt95%

libfabric-bin 2.1.0-1.1

Diagnosis programs for the libfabric communication library

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric-bin
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfabric-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfabric-dev 2.1.0-1.1

Development files for libfabric1

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfabric-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfabric1 2.1.0-1.1

libfabric communication library

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric1
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 5 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfabric1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

libfabric

nix profile install nixpkgs#libfabric
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libfabric/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

libfabric-bin 1.17.0-3build2

Diagnosis programs for the libfabric communication library

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric-bin
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfabric-dev 1.17.0-3build2

Development files for libfabric1

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric-dev
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfabric1 1.17.0-3build2

libfabric communication library

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo apt install libfabric1
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

libfabric 2.5.1-3.fc45

Open Fabric Interfaces

https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo dnf install libfabric
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 7 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libfabric from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

libfabric-devel 2.5.1-3.fc45

Development files for libfabric

https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo dnf install libfabric-devel
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libfabric-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

libfabric 2.6.0-1

User-space API for OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI)

https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

sudo pacman -S libfabric
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: libfabric from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

libfabric 2.6.0-1.3

User-space RDMA Fabric Interfaces

http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo zypper install libfabric
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libfabric-devel 2.6.0-1.3

Development files for the libfabric library

http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo zypper install libfabric-devel
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libfabric-devel-32bit 2.6.0-1.3

Development files for the libfabric library

http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo zypper install libfabric-devel-32bit
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric-devel-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libfabric1 2.6.0-1.3

User-space RDMA fabric interfaces

http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo zypper install libfabric1
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: System/Libraries
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 12 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric1 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libfabric1-32bit 2.6.0-1.3

User-space RDMA fabric interfaces

http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric

sudo zypper install libfabric1-32bit
  • License: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: System/Libraries
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libfabric
  • 6 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Libfabric
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric1-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

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