# Install wimlib with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, zypper Library to create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging files. Version 1.14.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:wimlib ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install wimlib ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install wimlib ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: archivers/wimlib/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add wimlib ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wimlib from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libwim-dev ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: libwim-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install wimlib ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wimlib 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#wimlib ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wi/wimlib/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S wimlib ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: wimlib from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install libwim15 ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libwim15 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/wimlib ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/wimlib.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:wimlib - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.14.5 - **Source summary:** Library to create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging files - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - mkwinpeimg (cli) - wimappend (cli) - wimapply (cli) - wimcapture (cli) - wimdelete (cli) - wimdir (cli) - wimexport (cli) - wimextract (cli) - wiminfo (cli) - wimjoin (cli) - wimlib-imagex (cli) - wimmount (cli) - wimmountrw (cli) - wimoptimize (cli) - wimsplit (cli) - wimunmount (cli) - wimupdate (cli) - wimverify (cli) - mkwinpeimg (alias) - wimappend (alias) - wimapply (alias) - wimcapture (alias) - wimdelete (alias) - wimdir (alias) - wimexport (alias) - wimextract (alias) - wiminfo (alias) - wimjoin (alias) - wimlib-imagex (alias) - wimmount (alias) - wimmountrw (alias) - wimoptimize (alias) - wimsplit (alias) - wimunmount (alias) - wimupdate (alias) - wimverify (alias) ## Build dependencies - pkgconf ## 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: 1.14.5 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://wimlib.net/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage wimlib is an open-source C library and command-line toolkit for Windows Imaging Format archives. Its README positions wimlib and `wimlib-imagex` as a free, cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX, and DISM for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting WIM files. ### Project history The project emerged to make WIM files workable outside the Microsoft deployment toolchain. Secondary WIM-format references date the availability of an open-source WIM-handling library to April 30, 2012, and SourceForge records the earlier hosting era before the project moved to the dedicated wimlib.net site in January 2016. Over time, wimlib grew from basic WIM manipulation into a broad toolkit exposed through `wimlib-imagex` and individual command aliases such as `wimcapture`, `wimapply`, `wimextract`, `wimsplit`, and `wimoptimize`. The manual emphasizes that its interface resembles Microsoft's ImageX while remaining cross-platform and adding extensions useful to non-Windows workflows. A major part of wimlib's relevance is format completeness. Its manuals document support for XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compression, split WIMs, pipable WIMs, solid WIM/ESD-style files, mounting, exporting, appending, verifying, and optimizing archives. Those features map directly to modern Windows install media and deployment images. ### Adoption history wimlib became the practical WIM implementation for Unix-like package managers because Microsoft tools are Windows-centered. It is packaged across Linux, BSD-oriented, macOS, Windows, and cross-platform package ecosystems, and is commonly used anywhere install.wim or install.esd files need to be inspected, split, converted, or applied without booting into Microsoft's tooling. ### How it is used Typical package-user workflows include extracting files from Windows installation media, converting ESD-style solid WIMs to conventional WIMs, splitting large install images for FAT32 media, capturing or applying Windows images from Linux, and verifying archives. `wimlib-imagex` is the general frontend, while the command aliases provide ImageX-like verbs as standalone commands. ### Why package nerds care For package nerds, wimlib is the key non-Microsoft implementation of a deployment format that otherwise belongs to the Windows ADK world. It turns WIM from a vendor deployment artifact into an ordinary archive-like format that can be scripted, packaged, and used in rescue media, installer creation, forensic extraction, and cross-platform system administration. ### Timeline - 2012: Open-source WIM-handling library availability is noted in WIM-format histories. - 2016: SourceForge noted that hosting had moved to wimlib.net. - 2026: The mirrored README identifies wimlib 1.14.5 as the January 2026 release. ### Related projects - wimlib is related to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX, and DISM, and to the broader Windows Imaging Format used by Windows Setup, Windows PE, and deployment tooling. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** wimlib - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - libwim-dev - 1.14.4-1.1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libwim-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files - development files | https://wimlib.net/ - Debian apt - libwim-doc - 1.14.4-1.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libwim-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files - API documentation | https://wimlib.net/ - Debian apt - libwim15t64 - 1.14.4-1.1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libwim15t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files | https://wimlib.net/ - Debian apt - wimtools - 1.14.4-1.1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wimtools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tools for manipulating Windows Imaging files | https://wimlib.net/ - Nix - wimlib: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wi/wimlib/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - libwim-dev - 1.14.4-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libwim-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files - development files | https://wimlib.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libwim-doc - 1.14.4-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libwim-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files - API documentation | https://wimlib.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libwim15t64 - 1.14.4-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libwim15t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library for manipulating Windows Imaging files | https://wimlib.net/ - Ubuntu apt - wimtools - 1.14.4-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wimtools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tools for manipulating Windows Imaging files | https://wimlib.net/ - apk - wimlib - 1.14.4-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wimlib from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging archives | https://wimlib.net/ - apk - wimlib-dev - 1.14.4-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wimlib-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging archives (development files) | https://wimlib.net/ - apk - wimlib-doc - 1.14.4-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wimlib-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging archives (documentation) | https://wimlib.net/ - dnf - wimlib - 1.14.5-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wimlib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library | https://wimlib.net/ - dnf - wimlib-devel - 1.14.5-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wimlib-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for wimlib | https://wimlib.net/ - dnf - wimlib-utils - 1.14.5-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wimlib-utils from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Tools for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting WIM files | https://wimlib.net/ - pacman - wimlib - 1.14.5-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: wimlib from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A library and program to extract, create, and modify WIM files | https://wimlib.net ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Archive and compression packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/archive-compression-tools/) - Matched archive or compression metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [squashfs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/squashfs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: archive, cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [btfs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/btfs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [btrfs-progs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/btrfs-progs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [dosfstools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dosfstools/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [dwarfs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dwarfs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [dysk](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dysk/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [e2fsprogs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/e2fsprogs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [e2tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/e2tools/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, filesystem, filesystems, system. - [unyaffs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/unyaffs/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, extract, files, filesystem, filesystems. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wimlib.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wimlib.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