libcap-ng

Install command:
brew install libcap-ng

Library for Linux that makes using posix capabilities easy

https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libcap-ng.json

Formula code: libcap-ng.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 0.9
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.72 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.18.1 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
libtool 2.5.4 Generic library support script
m4 1.4.20 Macro processing language
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python-setuptools 81.0.0 Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
python@3.14 3.14.3 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
swig 4.4.1 Generate scripting interfaces to C/C++ code

Requires: Linux

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