macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
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bcal mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, zypper installieren
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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Linux
Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install bcalDebian stable package indexes · bcal · Quelle: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install bcalFedora Rawhide package metadata · bcal · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#bcalnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/bc/bcal/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install bcalopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · bcal · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Storage conversion and expression calculator
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- bcal
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
bcal is a small C command-line calculator aimed at people who think in bytes, sectors, addresses, and binary prefixes.
Projektgeschichte
The upstream GitHub repository was created in 2016. Its README describes bcal, the Byte CALculator, as a REPL and single-shot CLI for storage expressions, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, base conversion, and CHS/LBA calculations.
The project keeps dependencies modest: standard libc plus GNU Readline or BSD Editline, with a no-readline build option that uses its own prompt and history-file support.
Adoptionsgeschichte
bcal is packaged beyond Homebrew, including Debian, Fedora, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE-family package sets in the supplied package-manager facts. Its README points users to package-manager installation first and shows Repology packaging status.
Wie es verwendet wird
Users run bcal as an interactive storage calculator, pass quoted expressions for one-shot evaluation, convert between decimal, hexadecimal, binary, SI, and IEC units, or calculate disk CHS/LBA values.
When built without Readline, its history file is stored under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bcal/history or $HOME/.config/bcal/history.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
bcal is the kind of niche CLI package that saves repeated mental arithmetic for storage engineers, filesystem debuggers, firmware people, and anyone reading sector offsets in hex.
Its significance is not ecosystem scale but fit: it packages a cluster of byte-addressing calculations that general calculators rarely make pleasant.
Zeitleiste
- 2016: GitHub repository created.
- 2018: README-linked asciinema demo published.
- 2020s: Packaged in Homebrew and several Linux distributions.
Related projects
- bc and dc cover general arbitrary-precision calculation but not bcal's storage-unit and disk-addressing workflow.
- disk utilities, hex calculators, and filesystem debugging tools overlap with bcal's audience.
Quellen
- https://github.com/jarun/bcal
- https://github.com/jarun/bcal#readme
- source_facts.package-manager
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
bcal | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-08
Manager-Version2.5
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv2.5
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:bcal |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.5 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bcal |
| Homepage | https://github.com/jarun/bcal |
| Repository | https://github.com/jarun/bcal |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/jarun/bcal#readme |
| Lizenz | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/jarun/bcal/archive/refs/tags/v2.5.tar.gz |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | bcal |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
Debian apt95%
bcal 2.4-2+b1
Command-line utility for storage conversions and calculations
sudo apt install bcal- Section: misc
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: bcal
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Bcal
Nix95%
bcal
nix profile install nixpkgs#bcal- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Bcal
Ubuntu apt95%
bcal 2.4-2
Command-line utility for storage conversions and calculations
sudo apt install bcal- Section: universe/misc
- Architecture: amd64
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Bcal
dnf95%
bcal 2.5-1.fc45
Storage conversion and expression calculator
sudo dnf install bcal- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: bcal
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Bcal
zypper95%
bcal 2.4-2.3
Command-line utility for storage conversions and calculations
http://www.github.com/jarun/bcal
sudo zypper install bcal- License: GPL-3.0-only
- Category: Productivity/Scientific/Math
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: bcal
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Bcal
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment