gping mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• gping

Projektgeschichte

The public project lives at orf/gping on GitHub and is organized as a Rust CLI with a manual page and a companion pinger component. Its repository page describes an active command-line tool with hundreds of commits and dozens of release artifacts.

The 2024 tag history shows separate gping and pinger release tags, indicating that the project evolved from a single end-user command into a small Rust workspace where the lower-level ping implementation can move alongside the CLI.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents installation through Homebrew, MacPorts, Scoop, Chocolatey, Fedora COPR, Cargo, Arch, Alpine, Debian/Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Docker, Flox, and gah. The input package-manager map also records coverage across apk, brew, Chocolatey, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, Scoop, Ubuntu, winget, and zypper.

Homebrew packages gping as a Rust-built formula with binary bottle support for macOS and Linux, which is a strong fit for a tool whose value is immediate command-line ergonomics rather than a service or daemon.

Wie es verwendet wird

The common workflow is to run gping with a host or list of hosts and watch latency over time in the terminal. The README also documents --cmd for graphing command execution time, cloud shorthand targets such as AWS regions, adjustable watch intervals, graph buffer length, address-family forcing, interface selection, simple graphics, and named or hex colors.

Because it stays close to ping, gping is often useful for live troubleshooting: comparing hosts, watching intermittent latency, or leaving a terminal graph visible while changing networks or testing a remote endpoint.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

gping is the kind of package that travels well across package managers: one obvious executable name, a compact Rust binary, no background service, and immediate terminal-visible payoff. It is also a good example of the modern 'better Unix tool' pattern where an old primitive is kept but made more observable.

For maintainers, it is a network utility with platform-sensitive behavior, so package metadata tends to expose conflicts and platform packaging details even though the user-facing command is simple.

Zeitleiste

• 2024: GitHub tags show coordinated gping and pinger releases, including gping-v1.17.x and pinger-v1.2.x.
• 2024: gping-v1.19.0 and pinger-v2.0.0 were tagged on Dec 18, 2024.
• 2026: GitHub release metadata on the repository page listed gping-v1.20.4 dated Jun 24, 2026.

Related projects

• ping and inetutils provide the classic baseline that gping visually extends.
• The repository's pinger component is related as the lower-level ping implementation used alongside the CLI.
• Terminal graphing and monitoring tools such as watch-style CLIs occupy the same package-manager niche, but gping stays narrowly focused on latency and command timing.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gping
• https://github.com/orf/gping
• https://github.com/orf/gping/tags