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Install opus-tools with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget

Utilities to encode, inspect, and decode .opus files. Version 0.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install opus-tools.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install opus-tools

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install opus-tools

MacPorts ports tree · audio/opus-tools/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add opus-tools

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · opus-tools · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install opus-tools

Debian stable package indexes · opus-tools · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install opus-tools

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · opus-tools · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#opus-tools

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/op/opus-tools/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S opus-tools

Arch Linux sync databases · opus-tools · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install opus-tools

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · opus-tools · source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/opus-tools

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/opus-tools.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Mozilla.opus-tools -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Mozilla.opus-tools · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Utilities to encode, inspect, and decode .opus files

Commands and aliases

  • opusdec
  • opusenc
  • opusinfo

history

Project history and usage

opus-tools is the Xiph.Org command-line toolkit for Ogg Opus files. The familiar executables are `opusenc` for encoding, `opusdec` for decoding, and `opusinfo` for inspecting stream metadata and technical validity.

Project history

The package grew out of the Opus codec standardization effort. Opus was standardized by the IETF in RFC 6716 in September 2012 as a codec for interactive speech and audio, combining technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec. The tools gave developers and distribution maintainers a direct way to create, decode, and inspect `.opus` files around the reference implementation.

Ogg Opus storage was standardized separately in RFC 7845 in April 2016. Xiph's implementation-status page records opusenc, opusdec, and opusinfo as the initial development implementation for that RFC, part of the opus-tools package and repository, with active public use before a 1.0 release and distribution through Linux package managers, Homebrew, and MacPorts.

The official Xiph GitLab project identifies the repository as the official Opus tools repository. Xiph's downloads page records opus-tools 0.2 on 2018-09-18, a release that moved `opusdec` to the opusfile library and `opusenc` to libopusenc, improving robust Ogg Opus reading and writing and adding features for decoding, encoding, opusinfo, and the experimental opusrtp tool.

Adoption history

opus-tools rode the adoption curve of Opus itself: browser, WebRTC, media framework, and Linux-distribution support made Opus an everyday codec, while this package remained the low-level CLI companion for conversion, inspection, and test artifacts. The input metadata lists packaging across Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, Ubuntu, winget, and openSUSE.

How it is used

`opusenc` is used to turn WAV, FLAC, and other audio inputs into Ogg Opus files; `opusdec` decodes Opus streams back to PCM/audio outputs; `opusinfo` reports stream structure, metadata, and conformance details. This makes the package useful in media pipelines, archival scripts, codec tests, and distribution build checks.

The package is especially important for Ogg Opus because RFC 7845 covers metadata, seeking, trimming, live streamability, chaining, and container behavior. Command-line tools let packagers and audio engineers inspect those details without embedding a whole player or media framework.

Why package nerds care

opus-tools is the thin CLI layer that turns a standards-track codec into packageable daily machinery. For package nerds, it marks the boundary between `libopus` as a codec library and Opus as a usable file format with encoders, decoders, inspectors, distro packages, and reproducible command-line workflows.

Timeline

  • 2012-09: RFC 6716 defines the Opus interactive speech and audio codec.
  • 2016-04: RFC 7845 defines Ogg encapsulation for Opus audio.
  • 2017-03-29: The Xiph GitLab page records the opus-tools project creation date.
  • 2018-09-18: Xiph publishes opus-tools 0.2, moving the encoder and decoder onto libopusenc and opusfile.

Related projects

  • opus-tools is closely tied to libopus, libopusenc, opusfile, libogg, and the Ogg container. It is also related to media frameworks and players that implement Ogg Opus, including Firefox, Chromium, GStreamer, FFmpeg, VLC, Rockbox, and metadata libraries such as Mutagen.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
opusdecexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
opusencexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
opusinfoexecutableindexed 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 version0.2
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:opus-tools
Version0.2
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://www.opus-codec.org/
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone 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%

opus-tools 0.2-1+b3

Opus codec command line tools

http://www.opus-codec.org

sudo apt install opus-tools
  • Section: sound
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: opus-tools
  • 6 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: opus-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

opus-tools

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

opus-tools 0.2-1build3

Opus codec command line tools

http://www.opus-codec.org

sudo apt install opus-tools
  • Section: universe/sound
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 6 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: opus-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

opus-tools 0.2-r3

Collection of tools for Opus audio codec

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus-tools

sudo apk add opus-tools
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: opus-tools
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opus-tools from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

opus-tools-doc 0.2-r3

Collection of tools for Opus audio codec (documentation)

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus-tools

sudo apk add opus-tools-doc
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: opus-tools
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opus-tools-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

opus-tools 0.2-21.fc45

A set of tools for the opus audio codec

http://www.opus-codec.org/

sudo dnf install opus-tools
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD AND GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: opus-tools
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opus-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

opus-tools 0.2-7

Collection of tools for Opus audio codec

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus-tools

sudo pacman -S opus-tools
  • License: BSD
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 5 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: opus-tools from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

opus-tools 0.2-1.32

A set of tools for the opus audio codec

http://www.opus-codec.org/

sudo zypper install opus-tools
  • License: BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Editors and Convertors
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: opus-tools
  • 8 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: opus-tools from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

opus-tools

sudo port install opus-tools
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: audio/opus-tools/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/opus-tools

scoop install main/opus-tools
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/opus-tools.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

Mozilla.opus-tools

winget install --id Mozilla.opus-tools -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Opus Tools
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Mozilla.opus-tools from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

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