void-linux/xbps

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1137 stars · 148 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

XBPS (The X Binary Package System) is a binary package system written in C, designed from scratch to be fast, portable, and featureful. It provides a well-documented library API plus CLI frontends for installing, updating, and managing binary packages and repositories, powering Void Linux.

Use cases

• manage binary packages on void linux
• install packages from signed remote repositories
• build a custom package manager frontend on the xbps library api
• resolve package dependencies and update reverse dependencies
• verify package integrity and detect broken installs
• resume interrupted package installs or updates

When to choose

• you are running or packaging for Void Linux
• you need a fast, POSIX-compliant binary package manager with a C library API
• you want signed repositories, multiple compression formats, and integrity checking

When to avoid

• you need source-based package management like Gentoo's portage
• you are on a non-Linux platform where xbps is not ported
• you want a high-level GUI package manager out of the box

Facets

library · maturity active

package-manager cli developer-tools operating-systems developer-tools cli c binary-packages void-linux package-management posix repositories signed-repositories command-line linux

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