# Install libpano with Homebrew, zypper

Build panoramic images from a set of overlapping images. Version 2.9.23 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install libpano-devel.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:libpano
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libpano
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install libpano-devel
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:libpano
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.9.23
- **Source summary:** Build panoramic images from a set of overlapping images
- **Homepage:** <https://panotools.sourceforge.net/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- PTblender (alias)
- PTcrop (alias)
- PTinfo (alias)
- PTmasker (alias)
- PTmender (alias)
- PToptimizer (alias)
- PTroller (alias)
- PTtiff2psd (alias)
- PTtiffdump (alias)
- PTuncrop (alias)
- panoinfo (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.9.23
## Project history and usage

libpano13 is the Panorama Tools library for panoramic imaging: the C library and command-line tool set behind workflows that remap, optimize, blend, crop, and assemble overlapping photographs into panoramas.

### Project history

Panorama Tools originated with Helmut Dersch's work at the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen. The libpano13 README still identifies the library as part of Dersch's Panorama Tools and lists command-line tools such as PToptimizer and PTmender.

Community development continued on SourceForge, where the project describes libpano13 as the cross-platform library behind the Hugin photo stitcher. Development moved from Subversion to Mercurial in February 2011, and SourceForge repository paths changed again in May 2013.

### Adoption history

libpano13 is most visible through Hugin and other panorama front ends, but it remains valuable as a scriptable command-line stack. Hugin documentation explains that PanoTools project files remain useful with Hugin, PTGui, PTAssembler, and related tools, and that command-line scripting helps automate repeated panorama work.

### How it is used

A typical libpano13 command-line workflow uses PTmender to map images, PTblender or PTmasker for color and mask work, PTroller to merge TIFFs, PTcrop or PTuncrop for canvas adjustment, and panoinfo or PTinfo for inspection. That makes the package useful both as a library dependency and as a toolbox for batch panorama processing.

### Why package nerds care

libpano13 is package-nerd catnip because it is the quiet geometry engine under a familiar GUI application. It carries old-school Unix virtues into photography: text project files, small tools, repeatable batch processing, and a library ABI that Hugin and other front ends depend on.

### Timeline

- 2009: libpano13 2.9.14 added projections, a command-line tool, documentation, cleanups, and fixes.
- 2010: libpano13 2.9.17 added a projection, mosaic mode, cleanups, and fixes.
- 2011: libpano13 development moved from Subversion to Mercurial.
- 2011: libpano13 2.9.18 added the Thoby projection and was needed for Hugin 2011.0.0.
- 2023: libpano13 2.9.22 removed or stubbed insecure command-tool data-handling paths while keeping ABI compatibility.

### Related projects

- Hugin is the main graphical panorama stitcher associated with libpano13.
- PTGui, PTAssembler, and related tools use PanoTools-style project files and workflows.
- Panotools::Script, GIMP plugin, Photoshop filters, and MPRemap are sibling projects in the Panorama Tools SourceForge area.

### Sources

- <https://hugin.sourceforge.io/docs/manual/Panorama_scripting_in_a_nutshell.html>
- <https://panotools.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/p/panotools/libpano13/ci/default/tree/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/panotools/files/libpano13/libpano13-2.9.22/>
- <https://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools>


## 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

- zypper - libpano-devel - 2.9.23-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpano-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Panorama Tools Back-End Library | https://panotools.sourceforge.net/
- zypper - libpano-utils - 2.9.23-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpano-utils from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Panorama Tools Utilities | https://panotools.sourceforge.net/
- zypper - libpano13-3 - 2.9.23-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpano13-3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Panorama Tools Back-End Library | https://panotools.sourceforge.net/


## Combined YAML source

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