macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install cairolocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install cairoMacPorts ports tree · graphics/cairo/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
cairo mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper installieren
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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add cairoAlpine Linux edge package indexes · cairo · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install cairoFedora Rawhide package metadata · cairo · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#caironixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cairo/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S cairoArch Linux sync databases · cairo · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2Debian stable package indexes · libcairo-gobject2 · Quelle: deb.debian.org
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install cairo-developenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cairo-devel · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Vector graphics library with cross-device output support
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- cairo-trace
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Cairo is a C 2D graphics library that provides a PostScript/PDF-like drawing API over multiple output backends, including X11, XCB, Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PDF, PostScript, and SVG.
Projektgeschichte
The official repository README says cairo was originally developed by Carl Worth and Keith Packard. Cairo's early identity was a cross-device vector rendering library: the documentation archive points to a 2003 paper under the earlier Xr name and later cairo presentations from 2005.
The 1.0.0 release announcement on 2005-08-24 marked the stable API/ABI line for 1.x.y releases. At that point xlib, image, and win32 were supported backends, while Glitz, PostScript, PDF, Quartz, and XCB were experimental. Modern project documentation lists a wider set of supported targets, including PDF, PostScript, SVG, Quartz, Win32, Xlib, and XCB.
Cairo is tied closely to pixman for pixel compositing and to desktop text/rendering stacks through fontconfig, FreeType, platform font backends, and toolkit bindings. The project continues to publish releases through cairographics.org, with the official news page listing releases up to 1.18.4 in 2025.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Cairo became infrastructure rather than an end-user app. The official bindings page lists bindings for languages including C++, Haskell, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and others, and notes toolkit integration such as GTK+ 2.8+ support. That binding and toolkit spread made cairo a common dependency in Linux desktop, document, plotting, and image-generation software.
Package-manager adoption is broad: the input facts list Cairo across Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE-style packaging. That breadth reflects cairo's role as a shared graphics primitive for higher-level applications.
Wie es verwendet wird
Developers use cairo to draw vector graphics, text, paths, patterns, and transformed/composited images to screen and file surfaces. Common package builds enable image, PNG, PDF, PostScript, SVG, Xlib, XCB, FreeType, fontconfig, Quartz, or Windows backends depending on platform needs.
The Homebrew package exposes cairo-trace, but most users consume cairo as a library dependency through headers, pkg-config metadata, and language bindings.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
Cairo is one of those packages that explains why dependency graphs get deep: a small API surface at the application level hides years of rendering, font, backend, and platform compatibility work. For package nerds it is a foundational desktop graphics dependency, sitting between low-level raster compositing in pixman and higher-level toolkits, browsers, plotting libraries, and document renderers.
Its dual LGPL/MPL licensing, stable 1.x compatibility promise, backend matrix, and language bindings made it unusually reusable across open-source desktop stacks and proprietary-friendly distribution scenarios.
Zeitleiste
- 2003: Xr-era cross-device vector rendering work precedes the cairo name.
- 2005: cairo 1.0.0 released with a stable 1.x compatibility promise.
- 2008: cairo 1.8.0 release appears in the official news archive.
- 2018: cairo 1.16.0 released.
- 2023: cairo 1.18.0 released.
- 2025: cairo 1.18.4 released.
Related projects
- pixman is the pixel-manipulation library used by cairo for image compositing.
- Language bindings and adjacent projects include pycairo, cairomm, rcairo, cairo-perl, cairo-ocaml, and cairocffi.
- GTK and other GUI toolkits use cairo as a drawing layer; cairo also targets document formats such as PDF, PostScript, and SVG.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:library-like
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Installiert mit 11 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
- Build-Metadaten listen 3 Build-Abhängigkeiten.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
cairo-trace | 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 generiert2026-07-10
Manager-Version1.18.4
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://cairographics.org/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:cairo |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.18.4 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cairo |
| Homepage | https://cairographics.org/ |
| Repository | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://www.cairographics.org/documentation |
| Lizenz | LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-1.1 |
| Quellarchiv | https://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.18.4.tar.xz |
| Abhängigkeiten | fontconfig, freetype, gettext, glib, libpng, libx11, libxcb, libxext, libxrender, lzo, pixman |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| 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 | cairo |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| 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%
libcairo-gobject2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo-script-interpreter2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
sudo apt install libcairo-script-interpreter2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 6 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 12 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2-dev 1.18.4-1+b1
Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 15 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Debian apt95%
libcairo2-doc 1.18.4-1
Documentation for the Cairo Multi-platform 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Nix95%
cairo
nix profile install nixpkgs#cairo- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
sudo apt install libcairo-gobject2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo-script-interpreter2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
sudo apt install libcairo-script-interpreter2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 6 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2 1.18.0-3build1
Cairo 2D vector graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 12 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2-dev 1.18.0-3build1
Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: cairo
- 15 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
Ubuntu apt95%
libcairo2-doc 1.18.0-3build1
Documentation for the Cairo Multi-platform 2D graphics library
sudo apt install libcairo2-doc- Section: libs
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: cairo
- 2 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
apk95%
cairo 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library
sudo apk add cairo- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
apk95%
cairo-dbg 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (debug symbols)
sudo apk add cairo-dbg- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
apk95%
cairo-dev 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (development files)
sudo apk add cairo-dev- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
apk95%
cairo-doc 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (documentation)
sudo apk add cairo-doc- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
apk95%
cairo-gobject 1.18.4-r1
A vector graphics library (gobject bindings)
sudo apk add cairo-gobject- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: cairo
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Cairo
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