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Gnome disk usage analyzer. Version 50.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-07.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install baobab

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install baobab

MacPorts ports tree · gnome/baobab/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add baobab

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · baobab · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install baobab

Debian stable package indexes · baobab · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install baobab

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · baobab · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#baobab

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ba/baobab/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S baobab

Arch Linux sync databases · baobab · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install baobab

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · baobab · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

Gnome disk usage analyzer

Commands and aliases

  • baobab

history

Project history and usage

Baobab is GNOME's graphical Disk Usage Analyzer, packaged on Unix-like systems as a small desktop utility for scanning folders, volumes, and mounted devices.

Project history

The current Baobab repository describes the program as the GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer and its DOAP metadata classifies it as a GNOME core application written in Vala. The modern standalone source tree has public GNOME release tags beginning with the GNOME 3 era, while the package remains tied to the GNOME application release cadence.

Its release notes show steady adaptation to GNOME platform changes rather than large shifts in purpose: recent milestones include libadwaita design work in the GNOME 45 cycle, GtkColumnView and AdwDialog work in the GNOME 47 cycle, and scanning speed and memory improvements in the GNOME 49 cycle.

Adoption history

Baobab's adoption is mostly through GNOME distributions and package managers rather than a separate command-line community. Its presence in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Homebrew, and other package sets reflects its role as a standard graphical disk-inspection utility.

How it is used

Users launch Baobab to scan local folders, remote folders, volumes, or mounted devices and inspect directory sizes as a graphical tree or proportional visualization. It is useful when a Unix workstation needs a quick answer to what is consuming disk space without dropping into du, ncdu, or filesystem-specific tools.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, Baobab is a compact example of the modern GNOME app stack: Meson build files, Vala sources, localized help, AppStream metadata, and frequent translation updates. It also gives non-GNOME package collections a user-facing storage tool that complements terminal utilities.

Timeline

  • 2011: Standalone GNOME Baobab release tags appear in the public source repository with version 3.3.1.
  • 2012: Baobab follows the GNOME 3.4 and 3.6 stable release cycles.
  • 2023: GNOME 45 release notes record adoption of newer libadwaita widgets and design patterns.
  • 2025: GNOME 49 release notes record scanning speed and memory-usage improvements.
  • 2026: GNOME 50.0 is published with continued UI and translation maintenance.

Related projects

  • Baobab sits beside terminal disk-usage tools such as du and ncdu, and beside other GNOME core utilities. Its upstream development, translations, help, issue tracking, and release metadata are managed in GNOME infrastructure.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 9 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 7 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
baobabcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version50.0
manager updated2026-07-07
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:baobab
Version50.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/baobab
Homepagehttps://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/
Repositoryhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/baobab
Upstream docshttps://apps.gnome.org/Baobab
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://download.gnome.org/sources/baobab/50/baobab-50.0.tar.xz
Last updated2026-07-07T14:59:00Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesadwaita-icon-theme, cairo, gettext, glib, graphene, gtk4, hicolor-icon-theme, libadwaita, pango
Build dependenciesdesktop-file-utils, gettext, itstool, meson, ninja, pkgconf, vala
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namebaobab
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

baobab 48.0-2+b1

GNOME disk usage analyzer

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/

sudo apt install baobab
  • Section: gnome
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: baobab from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

baobab

nix profile install nixpkgs#baobab
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ba/baobab/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

baobab 46.0-1build1

GNOME disk usage analyzer

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/

sudo apt install baobab
  • Section: gnome
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 8 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: baobab from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

baobab 50.0-r0

A graphical application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab

sudo apk add baobab
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: baobab from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

baobab-doc 50.0-r0

A graphical application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment (documentation)

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab

sudo apk add baobab-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: baobab-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

baobab-lang 50.0-r0

Languages for package baobab

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab

sudo apk add baobab-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: baobab-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

baobab 50.0-1.fc45

A graphical directory tree analyzer

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Baobab

sudo dnf install baobab
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC0-1.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • 13 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: baobab from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

baobab 50.0-1

A graphical directory tree analyzer

https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab

sudo pacman -S baobab
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 11 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: baobab from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

baobab 50.0-1.2

Disk Usage Analyzer

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

sudo zypper install baobab
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: System/GUI/GNOME
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: baobab
  • 10 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: baobab from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

baobab-lang 50.0-1.2

Translations for package baobab

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

sudo zypper install baobab-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: System/Localization
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: baobab
  • 1 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: baobab-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

baobab

sudo port install baobab
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Baobab
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: gnome/baobab/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • cairoRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gettextRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • glibRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gtk4Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libadwaitaRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • desktop-file-utilsBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • itstoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • mesonBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • gduShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, storage, system.
  • ncduShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, storage, system.
  • ageduShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, system.
  • dfcShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, system.
  • diskonautShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, system.
  • diskusShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, disk-usage, system.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • 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