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Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm. Version 1.0.16 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install fribidi

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install fribidi

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/fribidi/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add fribidi

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

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libfribidi-bin

Debian stable package indexes · libfribidi-bin · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install fribidi

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

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#fribidi

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

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S fribidi

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

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install fribidi

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

overview

Package summary

Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm

Commands and aliases

  • fribidi

history

Project history and usage

GNU FriBidi is a C library and command-line utility implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. It is intended to provide correct Arabic, Hebrew, and other bidirectional text handling for free software, and it uses Unicode data and conformance testing against Unicode reference behavior.

Project history

FriBidi was first developed by Dov Grobgeld of the Ivrix project in late 2000, with early releases up to 0.1.15. Behdad Esfahbod began hacking on it around the same period through the FarsiWeb project, moved development to SourceForge, became maintainer in early 2001, and focused on standards compliance and GNU coding conventions.

The project released FriBidi 0.9.0 on 2001-03-29, followed by stabilization work that led to 0.10.4 in 2002. Richard Stallman dubbed it a GNU package in 2002, and the project later lived at FreeDesktop before moving to its current GitHub home.

Adoption history

The README says FriBidi was already being used by projects such as Pango, GTK+, GNOME, AbiWord, MLTerm, MPlayer, BiCon, and VLC. The official USERS file lists additional terminal emulators, text rendering systems, editors, word processors, media players, and desktop components that used FriBidi for bidirectional text or right-to-left subtitle rendering.

The HISTORY file notes that the stable 0.10.4 line had been shipped by several distributions since 2003, making FriBidi one of the small infrastructure libraries that quietly entered many Unix-like systems through desktop, font, terminal, and media stacks.

How it is used

Programmers typically use FriBidi through library calls such as `fribidi_log2vis` or lower-level bidi-type, embedding-level, and reorder functions. The package also ships a `fribidi` command-line utility that processes text line by line and is used for testing the algorithm.

Why package nerds care

FriBidi is significant because it is a tiny but central internationalization dependency. Package maintainers encounter it not as an end-user application but as a text-layout primitive underneath terminals, media players, GUI toolkits, subtitle renderers, and document applications.

It is also a classic example of packaging Unicode data-driven C code: the library extracts character properties from Unicode data files and aims to track the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm rather than inventing a separate policy.

Timeline

  • 2000: Dov Grobgeld starts FriBidi in the Ivrix project.
  • 2001: Behdad Esfahbod moves development forward on SourceForge and releases FriBidi 0.9.0 on 2001-03-29.
  • 2002: FriBidi 0.10.4 is released, and Richard Stallman identifies it as a GNU package.
  • 2003: The stable 0.10.4 line is reported as shipping in several distributions.
  • 2010s-2020s: Development continues from the FreeDesktop era to the GitHub repository, with the 1.0 series maintained there.

Related projects

  • Related upstream standards and data sources include Unicode Standard Annex #9 and Unicode character data.
  • Related consumers named by the project include Pango, GTK+, GNOME, AbiWord, MLTerm, MPlayer, BiCon, VLC, m17nlib, and terminal or desktop components that need bidirectional text.

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 8 platform targets.

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executables

Installed executables

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fribidicliglobal 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 version1.0.16
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/fribidi/fribidinone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:fribidi
Version1.0.16
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fribidi
Homepagehttps://github.com/fribidi/fribidi
Repositoryhttps://github.com/fribidi/fribidi
Upstream docshttps://github.com/fribidi/fribidi#readme
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/v1.0.16/fribidi-1.0.16.tar.xz
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namefribidi
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%

libfribidi-bin 1.0.16-1

Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm (utility)

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi-bin
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfribidi-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfribidi-dev 1.0.16-1

Development files for FreeBidi library

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfribidi-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfribidi0 1.0.16-1

Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi0
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfribidi0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

fribidi

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

libfribidi-bin 1.0.13-3build1

Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm (utility)

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi-bin
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfribidi-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfribidi-dev 1.0.13-3build1

Development files for FreeBidi library

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfribidi-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfribidi0 1.0.13-3build1

Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm

http://www.fribidi.org/

sudo apt install libfribidi0
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfribidi0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

fribidi 1.0.16-r3

Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo apk add fribidi
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fribidi from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fribidi-dev 1.0.16-r3

Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (development files)

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo apk add fribidi-dev
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fribidi-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fribidi-doc 1.0.16-r3

Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (documentation)

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo apk add fribidi-doc
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fribidi-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fribidi-static 1.0.16-r3

Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (static library)

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo apk add fribidi-static
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fribidi-static from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

fribidi 1.0.16-4.fc44

Library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/

sudo dnf install fribidi
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND Unicode-DFS-2016
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fribidi from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

fribidi-devel 1.0.16-4.fc44

Libraries and include files for FriBidi

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/

sudo dnf install fribidi-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND Unicode-DFS-2016
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fribidi-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

fribidi 1.0.16-2

A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo pacman -S fribidi
  • License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: fribidi from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

fribidi 1.0.16-1.2

An implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo zypper install fribidi
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fribidi from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

fribidi-devel 1.0.16-1.2

Development Files for FriBiDi

https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

sudo zypper install fribidi-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fribidi
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fribidi
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fribidi-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

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