macOS
Homebrew確認済み · 100%
brew install ancientlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPorts確認済み · 94%
sudo port install ancientMacPorts ports tree · archivers/ancient/Portfile · ソース: api.github.com
brew
ancient を Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, zypper でインストール
ancient のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
追加のインストールコマンド
Linux
Debian apt確認済み · 92%
sudo apt install ancientDebian stable package indexes · ancient · ソース: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnf確認済み · 92%
sudo dnf install ancientFedora Rawhide package metadata · ancient · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
openSUSE zypper確認済み · 92%
sudo zypper install ancientopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · ancient · ソース: download.opensuse.org
概要
パッケージ概要
Decompression routines for ancient formats
プロジェクトリンク
コマンドとエイリアス
- ancient
履歴
プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方
Ancient is a modern C++17 decompressor collection for old compression formats, especially formats from Amiga, Atari, and other 1980s and 1990s systems. It ships both a command-line application and a small API.
プロジェクトの歴史
The public GitHub repository was created in March 2017. The README explains the motivation: old decompression algorithms may still be findable, but original implementations are often system-specific, incomplete, direct translations from M68K assembly, poorly licensed, or hard to reuse safely.
Ancient's project goals are a clean modern implementation, BSD-style licensing, and test coverage against a cache of roughly ten thousand available files plus generated public-domain test files. The README also stresses that some old formats have undocumented corner cases and weak password protection, but the project is decompression-focused rather than cryptographic.
The latest GitHub release observed for this batch is v2.3.0, published in September 2025.
採用の歴史
Ancient sits at the intersection of software preservation, retrocomputing, and archive tooling. Its value is not broad user-interface adoption but format coverage: it preserves the ability to unpack data from old scenes, games, music modules, and system-specific compressors.
The supplied package facts show Ancient packaged in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/dnf, MacPorts, Ubuntu, and zypper. That distribution breadth is notable for a specialist decompressor library because it makes obscure formats available to scripts and preservation workflows without each user rebuilding from source.
使われ方
The README says simple usage is available through both the CLI and API, and that the compression algorithm is automatically detected in most cases. It also notes important boundaries: Ancient currently does not support archival files or self-extracting executables as primary built-in functionality.
The format list is the package's main feature: it includes classic Unix `compress`/`pack` variants, bzip2 and gzip bitstreams, Amiga-oriented formats such as PowerPacker, XPK-encapsulated files, Disk Masher System, StoneCracker, Pack-Ice, and many others.
パッケージ好きにとっての重要性
Ancient is significant because package managers can turn a preservation niche into a normal command-line capability. Once installed, old packed data can be tested or unpacked in automated pipelines without depending on questionable original binaries.
It is also a nice example of 'boring modern C++ around weird old formats': the project replaces fragile historical code with a maintained, licensed, test-backed implementation.
タイムライン
- 2017: GitHub repository created.
- 2017 onward: Ancient grows as a C++17 library and CLI for legacy decompression formats.
- 2025: Release v2.3.0 published.
Related projects
- PowerPacker, XPK, StoneCracker, Disk Masher System, Pack-Ice, and other legacy compressors listed by the README.
- Lhasa: referenced by the README as a source for reimplementing rare LZH compressors without reusing code.
- bzip2 and gzip: modern/Unix formats included alongside retro formats.
ソース
セキュリティ状態
リスクレベル: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
リスク分類器
リスク blue · 信頼度 中 · tool
理由
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
信号
- text:compress
インストール挙動
- formula メタデータに Homebrew post-install フックは記録されていません。
- Homebrew bottle メタデータは 6 個のプラットフォームターゲットで利用できます。
- ビルドメタデータには 5 件のビルド依存関係があります。
推奨レビュー
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
実行可能ファイル
インストールされる実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
ancient | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
バージョンと鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
ページ生成日2026-07-25
マネージャ版2.3.0
マネージャ更新日
ローカルデータOK
上流最新
検出された最新v2.3.0
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
- 情報No package-manager update timestamp was available.信頼度 低
インストールメタデータ
パッケージメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:ancient |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 2.3.0 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ancient |
| ホームページ | https://github.com/temisu/ancient |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/temisu/ancient |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://github.com/temisu/ancient#readme |
| ライセンス | BSD-2-Clause |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://github.com/temisu/ancient/archive/refs/tags/v2.3.0.tar.gz |
| ビルド依存関係 | autoconf, autoconf-archive, automake, libtool, pkgconf |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
ソースデータベース詳細
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | ancient |
| 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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ソースデータベース一致
他のパッケージマネージャ記録
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
Debian apt95%
ancient 2.2.0-1
decompression routines for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install ancient- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- 4 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
Debian apt95%
libancient-dev 2.2.0-1
decompression routines for ancient formats - development files
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install libancient-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: ancient
- 1 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
Debian apt95%
libancient2 2.2.0-1
decompression routines for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install libancient2- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: ancient
- 3 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
Ubuntu apt95%
ancient 2.1.0+ds-1build1
decompression routines for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install ancient- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- 4 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
Ubuntu apt95%
libancient-dev 2.1.0+ds-1build1
decompression routines for ancient formats - development files
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install libancient-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: ancient
- 1 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
Ubuntu apt95%
libancient2 2.1.0+ds-1build1
decompression routines for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo apt install libancient2- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: ancient
- 3 依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
dnf95%
ancient 2.3.0-3.fc44
Modern decompressor for old data compression formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo dnf install ancient- License: BSD-2-Clause AND bzip2-1.0.6
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: ancient
- 5 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
dnf95%
ancient-devel 2.3.0-3.fc44
Library and header files for building applications to use libancient
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo dnf install ancient-devel- License: BSD-2-Clause AND bzip2-1.0.6
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: ancient
- 3 依存関係
- 2 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
dnf95%
ancient-libs 2.3.0-3.fc44
Library files for libancient decompressor for old formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient
sudo dnf install ancient-libs- License: BSD-2-Clause AND bzip2-1.0.6
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: ancient
- 5 依存関係
- 2 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
zypper95%
ancient 2.3.0-1.3
Decompression routines for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient/
sudo zypper install ancient- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: ancient
- 4 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
zypper95%
ancient-devel 2.3.0-1.3
Development files for libancient
https://github.com/temisu/ancient/
sudo zypper install ancient-devel- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: ancient
- 2 依存関係
- 2 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
zypper95%
libancient2 2.3.0-1.3
Decompression library for ancient formats
https://github.com/temisu/ancient/
sudo zypper install libancient2- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Category: System/Libraries
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: ancient
- 4 依存関係
- 2 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
MacPorts95%
ancient
sudo port install ancient- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Ancient
ソース経路
リポジトリデータから生成
このページは scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py が生成した非公開のパッケージ SQLite アーティファクトから av-web によって提供されます。
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
使用ソース
- 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