# epics-base mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für epics-base in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:epics-base
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install epics-base
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install epics-base
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: epics-base from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:epics-base
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/epics-base>
- **Version:** 7.0.10
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
- **Homepage:** <https://epics-controls.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest>
- **Lizenz:** EPICS
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base.git>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-01T09:38:18Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- EpicsHostArch.pl (cli)
- caRepeater (cli)
- caget (cli)
- cainfo (cli)
- camonitor (cli)
- caput (cli)
- casw (cli)
- pvcall (cli)
- pvget (cli)
- pvinfo (cli)
- pvlist (cli)
- pvmonitor (cli)
- pvput (cli)
- softioc (cli)
- softiocpva (cli)
- EpicsHostArch.pl (Alias)
- caRepeater (Alias)
- caget (Alias)
- cainfo (Alias)
- camonitor (Alias)
- caput (Alias)
- casw (Alias)
- pvcall (Alias)
- pvget (Alias)
- pvinfo (Alias)
- pvlist (Alias)
- pvmonitor (Alias)
- pvput (Alias)
- softioc (Alias)
- softiocpva (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- perl
- readline

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- pkgconf

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Einschränkungen: To use EPICS in the shell you have to put this here into shell configuration: export EPICS_BASE=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/epics-base/libexec export EPICS_HOST_ARCH=$($HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/epics-base/bin/EpicsHostArch.pl)
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-09
- Manager-Version: 7.0.10
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-01
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

EPICS Base is the C/C++ core of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System toolkit. EPICS provides software components and command-line tools for building distributed control systems used by particle accelerators, telescopes, large experiments, and industrial installations.

### Projektgeschichte

EPICS grew out of accelerator control-system work at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Official historical material describes GTACS, the Ground Test Accelerator Control System, as the immediate predecessor and explains that the EPICS name was adopted as the LANL and ANL collaboration generalized the software for multi-lab use.

The EPICS repository documentation says current and past EPICS Base versions are maintained in the same GitHub repository, with EPICS 7 development on the 7.0 branch and older branches for 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, and 3.16. The project continues to release EPICS Base as the central core of the toolkit.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The official EPICS site describes a collaboration spanning many projects across disciplines, sizes, and continents. Historical EPICS material records the early LANL-ANL collaboration, 1992 participation by LBL, SSCL, and CEBAF, and later commercial licensing of EPICS Release 3.8.

Package adoption follows EPICS Base's role as a foundational scientific-control dependency: the supplied source metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu package names, while the official repository documents the portable branch and release structure needed by downstream users.

### Wie es verwendet wird

EPICS Base users build the toolkit, create or run IOCs, and use Channel Access and PV Access tools to read, write, monitor, and serve process variables. The repository README shows a quick `make` build and a `softIoc` example, while the documentation indexes installation, IOC creation, database concepts, Channel Access commands, and system administration topics.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, EPICS Base is significant because it is a long-lived scientific infrastructure package with many executables, C/C++ libraries, Perl tooling, architecture-specific install paths, and downstream modules. Its branch history, tagged releases, and broad operating-system support make it a classic example of packaging research-facility infrastructure rather than a single small CLI.

### Zeitleiste

- 1988: LANL hosted the Accelerator Automation Application Toolkit Workshop that shaped GTACS.
- 1989: LANL and ANL teams met around the Advanced Photon Source control-system effort.
- 1991: EPICS was presented at ICALEPCS and became identified with the accelerator-control standard model.
- 1992: LBL, SSCL, and CEBAF joined the EPICS collaboration.
- 2004: EPICS was released under the EPICS Open License according to official training material.
- 2026: EPICS Base 7.0.10 was announced on the official EPICS site.

### Related projects

- EPICS Base is related to EPICS 7 modules, Channel Access, PV Access, IOC applications, softIOC, areaDetector, StreamDevice, and the wider EPICS collaboration software ecosystem.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/>
- <https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/contributing/HowToWorkWithTheEpicsRepository.html>
- <https://epics-controls.org/>
- <https://epics.anl.gov/EpicsDocumentation/EpicsGeneral/epics_success.html>
- <https://epics.anl.gov/docs/APS2014/01-Introduction-to-EPICS.pdf>
- <https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für epics-base wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** epics-base
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - epics-base - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: epics-base from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS tools | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - epics-dev - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: epics-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS header files | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - epics-doc - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: epics-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS documentation | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - libca-dev - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libca-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS channel access client library (headers) | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - libca4.14.4 - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libca4.14.4 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS channel access client library | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - libcom-dev - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcom-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS common library (headers) | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - libcom3.23.1 - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libcom3.23.1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS common library | https://epics-controls.org/
- Debian apt - libepics-perl - 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-7+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libepics-perl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | EPICS perl module | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - epics-base - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: epics-base from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS tools | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - epics-dev - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: epics-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS header files | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - epics-doc - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: epics-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS documentation | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libca-dev - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libca-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS channel access client library (headers) | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libca4.14.2 - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libca4.14.2 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS channel access client library | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libcom-dev - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libcom-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS common library (headers) | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libcom3.22.0 - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libcom3.22.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS common library | https://epics-controls.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libepics-perl - 7.0.7+dfsg1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libepics-perl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | EPICS perl module | https://epics-controls.org/


## Verwandte Links

- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [perl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/perl/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [argus-clients](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/argus-clients/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: readline, system.
- [augeas](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/augeas/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: readline, system.
- [bareos-client](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bareos-client/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: readline, system.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/epics-base.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/epics-base.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
