# Install gplugin with Homebrew, dnf, zypper GObject based library that implements a reusable plugin system. Version 0.44.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gplugin ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gplugin ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install gplugin ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install gplugin ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gplugin from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gplugin - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.44.2 - **Source summary:** GObject based library that implements a reusable plugin system - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - gplugin-gtk4-viewer (cli) - gplugin-query (cli) - gplugin-gtk4-viewer (alias) - gplugin-query (alias) ## Dependencies - gettext - glib - gtk4 - pygobject3 - python@3.14 ## Build dependencies - gobject-introspection - help2man - meson - ninja - pkgconf - vala ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.44.2 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage GPlugin is a GObject/GLib plugin library from the Instant Messaging Freedom ecosystem. Its generated API documentation describes the GPlugin namespace as a plugin library with GLib, GObject, GModule, and Gio dependencies. ### Project history The official docs identify the source and website as the keep.imfreedom.org GPlugin repository and name GPlugin Developers as the authors. The library exposes a manager, plugin metadata, plugin/source interfaces, loader abstractions, and command-line option integration. GPlugin is closely associated with libpurple and Pidgin-family development: IM Freedom's public discussion index describes it as a custom plugin library used by libpurple3. ### Adoption history Package-manager adoption is specialist and library-focused. The input package-manager facts list Homebrew, Fedora, and openSUSE packages, while Homebrew packages GPlugin with GLib, GTK4, PyGObject, Vala, Meson, and gobject-introspection related dependencies. Its audience is mostly developers building or packaging GLib/GObject applications that need a reusable plugin system rather than end users installing a standalone command. ### How it is used Applications embed GPlugin to discover plugin files on disk, query metadata, load and unload plugins through managers and loaders, and expose plugin-related command-line options. The documentation also includes examples and pages for native, Python 3, Lua, Vala, and Genie plugins. The Homebrew package includes gplugin-query and gplugin-gtk4-viewer executables, reflecting both inspection and graphical viewing workflows around plugin metadata. ### Why package nerds care GPlugin is notable as infrastructure: it is not a flashy CLI, but it lets distributions package one reusable plugin layer for GLib applications instead of each application owning a bespoke loader. For package maintainers, the interesting parts are introspection data, language-loader dependencies, and ABI/API versioning around a library that other desktop and messaging components can consume. ### Timeline - 0.31: Core flags API is documented as present since version 0.31. - 0.32: Manager API is documented as present since version 0.32. - 0.39: Source interface documentation records a since marker for version 0.39. - 0.43: FileSource documentation records a since marker for version 0.43. ### Related projects - libpurple3 is the primary related consumer named by IM Freedom discussion metadata. - Pidgin and Finch are adjacent IM Freedom projects in the same ecosystem. - GLib, GObject, GModule, and Gio are the platform libraries named in the generated GPlugin docs. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** gplugin - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - dnf - gplugin - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | GObject based library that implements a reusable plugin system | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-devel - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development libraries and header files for gplugin-libs | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-gtk4 - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-gtk4 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | GTK4 applications for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-gtk4-devel - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-gtk4-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development libraries and header files for gplugin-gtk4-libs | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-gtk4-libs - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-gtk4-libs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | GTK4 libraries for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-gtk4-vala - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-gtk4-vala from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Vala bindings for gplugin-gtk4-libs | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-libs - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-libs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Library for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-loader-lua - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-loader-lua from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Lua loader for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-loader-python - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-loader-python from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Python loader for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - dnf - gplugin-vala - 0.44.2-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gplugin-vala from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Vala bindings for gplugin-libs | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - gplugin - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gplugin from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | GObject based library that implements a reusable plugin system | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - gplugin-devel - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gplugin-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development files for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - gplugin-doc - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gplugin-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Documentation for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - libgplugin-gtk4-0 - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libgplugin-gtk4-0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Gtk4 libs for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - libgplugin0 - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libgplugin0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Library of gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin - zypper - typelib-1_0-GPlugin-1_0 - 0.44.2-2.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: typelib-1_0-GPlugin-1_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Typelib for gplugin | https://keep.imfreedom.org/gplugin/gplugin ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [gettext](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gettext/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [glib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/glib/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gtk4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gtk4/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gobject-introspection](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gobject-introspection/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [help2man](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/help2man/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [meson](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/meson/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ninja](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ninja/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libdazzle](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libdazzle/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, glib, gobject, gtk. - [json-glib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/json-glib/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, glib, libraries, library. - [pango](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pango/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gtk, libraries, library. - [ada-url](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ada-url/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, libraries, library. - [cgal](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cgal/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, libraries, library. - [ctemplate](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ctemplate/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, libraries, library. - [curlpp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/curlpp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, libraries, library. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gplugin.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gplugin.yml) ## Sources - 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