# libfabric mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für libfabric in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:libfabric ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install libfabric ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libfabric-bin ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: libfabric-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install libfabric ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libfabric from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#libfabric ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libfabric/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S libfabric ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: libfabric from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install libfabric ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:libfabric - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 2.6.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** OpenFabrics libfabric - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T17:19:34Z - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - fi_info (cli) - fi_mon_sampler (cli) - fi_pingpong (cli) - fi_strerror (cli) - fi_info (Alias) - fi_mon_sampler (Alias) - fi_pingpong (Alias) - fi_strerror (Alias) ## Build-Abhängigkeiten - autoconf - automake - libtool ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 2.6.0 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-22 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung libfabric, also called OpenFabrics Interfaces, is a low-level communications library for high-performance parallel and distributed applications. It abstracts high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics behind provider implementations while exposing APIs tuned for HPC middleware. ### Projektgeschichte The OFI Working Group, a subgroup of the OpenFabrics Alliance, develops libfabric as an open framework for fabric communication services. The project's release notes identify version 1.0.0 on May 3, 2015 as the initial public release, with PSM, sockets, usNIC, and verbs providers. The project evolved from a 1.x provider framework into a 2.x series while retaining the same role: giving MPI, SHMEM, PGAS runtimes, and distributed systems software a common user-space API across InfiniBand, Ethernet/RDMA, provider-specific HPC networks, and cloud fabrics. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Open MPI documentation treats OFI and libfabric as interchangeable in practice and lists provider-backed networks such as AWS EFA, Cisco usNIC, Cray uGNI, Omni-Path, and HPE Slingshot. That made the package a common dependency on HPC systems and cloud HPC images. Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix, Ubuntu, and SUSE-family packages ship libfabric or libfabric-bin tooling such as fi_info, fi_pingpong, and fi_strerror for discovering providers and testing fabric paths. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users install libfabric directly for fi_info and fabtests, or indirectly through MPI and communication runtimes. Developers use its man pages and provider model to choose endpoint types, completion queues, address vectors, memory registration behavior, and transport-specific capabilities. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren libfabric is package-nerd significant because it is the dependency that lets one MPI build speak many fast networks. It hides vendor transport churn behind provider packages while still preserving enough detail for HPC performance tuning. ### Zeitleiste - 2015-05-03: libfabric 1.0.0 initial public release with PSM, sockets, usNIC, and verbs providers. - 2020-08: OpenFabrics mailing list announced libfabric 1.11.0 and fabtests. - 2024-12: OpenFabrics announced libfabric 2.0.0. - 2026-06-22: libfabric 2.6.0 release notes record continued provider and core development. ### Related projects - Related projects include Open MPI's OFI MTL/BTL support, fabtests, OpenFabrics Alliance work, AWS EFA, Cisco usNIC, HPE Slingshot, Omni-Path, InfiniBand verbs, and HPC communication runtimes. ### Quellen - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** libfabric - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Conflicts With:** mpich - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - libfabric-bin - 2.1.0-1.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libfabric-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Diagnosis programs for the libfabric communication library | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - Debian apt - libfabric-dev - 2.1.0-1.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libfabric-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files for libfabric1 | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - Debian apt - libfabric1 - 2.1.0-1.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libfabric1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | libfabric communication library | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - Nix - libfabric: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libfabric/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - libfabric-bin - 1.17.0-3build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Diagnosis programs for the libfabric communication library | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - Ubuntu apt - libfabric-dev - 1.17.0-3build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Development files for libfabric1 | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - Ubuntu apt - libfabric1 - 1.17.0-3build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfabric1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | libfabric communication library | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - dnf - libfabric - 2.5.1-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libfabric from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Open Fabric Interfaces | https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - dnf - libfabric-devel - 2.5.1-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libfabric-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for libfabric | https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - pacman - libfabric - 2.5.1-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: libfabric from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | User-space API for OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) | https://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/ - zypper - libfabric - 2.5.1-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | User-space RDMA Fabric Interfaces | http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - zypper - libfabric-devel - 2.5.1-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development files for the libfabric library | http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - zypper - libfabric-devel-32bit - 2.5.1-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric-devel-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development files for the libfabric library | http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - zypper - libfabric1 - 2.5.1-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric1 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | User-space RDMA fabric interfaces | http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric - zypper - libfabric1-32bit - 2.5.1-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libfabric1-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | User-space RDMA fabric interfaces | http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [autoconf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/autoconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [automake](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/automake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libtool](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/libtool/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [adios2](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/adios2/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [gensio](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/gensio/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [getdns](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/getdns/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [gsasl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/gsasl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [ldns](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ldns/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [libdnet](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/libdnet/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [libexosip](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/libexosip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [libnl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/libnl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. - [liboping](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/liboping/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, networking. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/libfabric.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/libfabric.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph