macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install omniorblocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install omniORBMacPorts ports tree · devel/omniORB/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew / rank 6697
Install omniorb with Homebrew, apt, Nix, dnf, MacPorts, zypper
IOR and naming service utilities for omniORB. Version 4.3.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install omniorb.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install omniorbDebian stable package indexes · omniorb · source: deb.debian.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#omniorbnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/om/omniorb/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install omniORBFedora Rawhide package metadata · omniORB · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libomniORB4-3openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libomniORB4-3 · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
IOR and naming service utilities for omniORB
Project links
Commands and aliases
- catior
- convertior
- genior
- nameclt
- omkdepend
- omniMapper
- omniNames
- omnicpp
- omniidl
- omniidlrun.py
history
Project history and usage
omniORB is a free CORBA Object Request Broker for C++ and Python, historically known for performance, standards compliance, and longevity. The Homebrew package exposes the classic omniORB command-line utilities: IDL compilation, naming-service tools, IOR inspection and conversion, and support programs around the ORB runtime.
Project history
The project history says omniORB began at Olivetti Research Ltd in Cambridge, whose lab later became Olivetti and Oracle Research Ltd and then AT&T Laboratories Cambridge in 1999. Development continued through those institutional changes, with multiple public releases, betas, and development snapshots.
A historical presentation by Duncan Grisby records early design details: omniORB was developed at ORL, originally targeted embedded platforms, omniORB 1 used Orbix's proprietary protocol, and omniORB 2 was designed for IIOP. The same material identifies omniORB 2.2 as a public release in May 1997.
On April 24, 2002, AT&T Laboratories Cambridge closed as part of AT&T's research cuts. omniORB then became an independent project, with original developers continuing involvement and SourceForge becoming the public project home.
Adoption history
The official site says omniORB is used by many thousands of developers and deployed in countless applications. It also notes that omniORB was one of only three ORBs awarded the Open Group's Open Brand for CORBA, meaning it passed compliance testing for CORBA 2.1.
Its adoption persisted because CORBA users needed a robust free ORB with both C++ and Python mappings. Distro packages across Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora-family systems, MacPorts, Nix, openSUSE, and Homebrew reflect the long tail of CORBA systems that still need IDL compilers, naming services, and IIOP interoperability.
How it is used
Developers use omniidl to compile CORBA IDL into language bindings, run omniNames as the CORBA Naming Service, and use utilities such as catior, convertior, and genior when inspecting or constructing interoperable object references.
The runtime implements CORBA 2.6-era features such as C++ and Python language bindings, GIOP/IIOP protocol support, a multithreaded runtime, TypeCode and Any, DynAny, AMI, local interfaces, IPv6, dynamic invocation/skeleton interfaces, and a complete Naming Service.
Why package nerds care
omniORB is one of those packages that carries a whole distributed-systems era inside a formula. Installing it pulls in not just a library but an IDL toolchain, a naming service, and utilities for an interoperability model that predates REST and gRPC.
Its significance is also archival: it connects package managers to the Cambridge research-lab lineage that produced VNC and other infrastructure, then survived the lab closure as an independent open source project.
Timeline
- May 1997: omniORB 2.2 is released to the public, according to historical project material.
- 1999: Olivetti Research's successor lab becomes AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
- June 1999: omniORB documentation records Open Group CORBA branding for CORBA 2.1 compliance.
- April 24, 2002: AT&T Laboratories Cambridge closes and omniORB becomes independent.
- March 31, 2025: the official site announces omniORB 4.3.3 and omniORBpy 4.3.3.
Related projects
- omniORB is part of the CORBA ecosystem alongside commercial ORBs, TAO, MICO, ORBit, and language mappings such as omniORBpy. For package users, omniORBpy is especially important because it lets Python programs interoperate with C++ CORBA services through the same ORB family.
Sources
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/docs.html
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/features.html
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/history.html
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/omni42/omniORB.pdf
- https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/omnipy42/omniORBpy/omniORBpy001.html
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/omniorb/
- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/omniORB/omniORBForm.html
- https://www.esrf.fr/conferences/Corba_Controls/PAPERS/grisby_orb.pdf
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
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
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
catior | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
convertior | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
genior | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
nameclt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omkdepend | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omniMapper | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omniNames | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omnicpp | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omniidl | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
omniidlrun.py | executable | indexed executable | Discovered 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 version4.3.4
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:omniorb |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.3.4 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://omniorb.sourceforge.io/ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
omniorb 4.3.3+ds1-1
IOR and naming service utilities for omniORB
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo apt install omniorb- Section: devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: omniorb-dfsg
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
Nix95%
omniorb
nix profile install nixpkgs#omniorb- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
Ubuntu apt95%
omniorb 4.3.2+ds1-1.1build2
IOR and naming service utilities for omniORB
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo apt install omniorb- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: omniorb-dfsg
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
dnf95%
omniORB 4.3.4-6.fc45
A robust high performance CORBA ORB for C++ and Python
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo dnf install omniORB- License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: omniORB
- 8 dependencies
- 13 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
dnf95%
omniORB-devel 4.3.4-6.fc45
Development files for omniORB
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo dnf install omniORB-devel- License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: omniORB
- 21 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
dnf95%
omniORB-doc 4.3.4-6.fc45
Documentation files for omniORB
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo dnf install omniORB-doc- License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: omniORB
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
dnf95%
omniORB-servers 4.3.4-6.fc45
OmniORB naming service
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo dnf install omniORB-servers- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 9 dependencies
- 4 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
dnf95%
omniORB-utils 4.3.4-6.fc45
Development files for omniORB
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo dnf install omniORB-utils- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 7 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
zypper95%
libomniORB4-3 4.3.2-1.8
omniORB libraries
https://omniorb.sourceforge.io
sudo zypper install libomniORB4-3- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Category: System/Libraries
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 6 dependencies
- 9 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
zypper95%
libomnithread4 4.3.2-1.8
omniORB thread library
https://omniorb.sourceforge.io
sudo zypper install libomnithread4- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Category: System/Libraries
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 4 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
zypper95%
omniORB 4.3.2-1.8
A robust high performance CORBA ORB for C++ and Python
https://omniorb.sourceforge.io
sudo zypper install omniORB- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Category: System/Libraries
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 7 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
zypper95%
omniORB-devel 4.3.2-1.8
Development libraries, header files and utilities for omniORB
https://omniorb.sourceforge.io
sudo zypper install omniORB-devel- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: omniORB
- 5 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
MacPorts95%
omniORB
sudo port install omniORB- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Omniorb
Debian apt92%
omniidl 4.3.3+ds1-1
omniORB IDL to C++ and Python3 compiler
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo apt install omniidl- Section: devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: omniorb-dfsg
- 4 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Omniidl
Ubuntu apt92%
omniidl 4.3.2+ds1-1.1build2
omniORB IDL to C++ and Python3 compiler
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net
sudo apt install omniidl- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: omniorb-dfsg
- 4 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Omniidl
source trail
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph
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