# Install vilistextum with Homebrew, apt, zypper HTML to text converter. Version 2.6.9 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install vilistextum. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:vilistextum ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install vilistextum ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install vilistextum ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: vilistextum from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install vilistextum ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: vilistextum from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:vilistextum - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.6.9 - **Source summary:** HTML to text converter - **Homepage:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-only - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - vilistextum (cli) - vilistextum (alias) ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-04 - Package-manager version: 2.6.9 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Vilistextum is a small command-line converter from HTML to plain ASCII/text, written by Patric Mueller. Its niche is fault-tolerant conversion of imperfect or quirky HTML into readable terminal, mail, or ebook-oriented text. ### Project history The upstream homepage identifies release 2.6.9 as dated October 22, 2006 and describes Vilistextum as GPLv2 free software. The tool predates today's browser-based HTML-to-text converters and sits in the older Unix tradition of command filters that read from files or standard input and write transformed text to files or standard output. ### How it is used Vilistextum is used to strip HTML into readable text while preserving useful structure such as link footnotes, image alt text, selected character/entity conversions, line wrapping, and multibyte character handling. The manual explicitly compares link-footnote output to `lynx -dump`, and the upstream site includes instructions for using it to read HTML mail in gnus or mutt. ### Why package nerds care Its package significance is modest but real: Vilistextum is one of the tiny, stable, old-school text-conversion utilities that remain useful in scripts, mail readers, and archival workflows because they do one narrow job without a browser runtime. ### Timeline - 2006-10-22: Upstream release 2.6.9 is published. - 2006-era documentation: The project documents HTML mail conversion workflows for gnus and mutt and manual options for link footnotes, line shrinking, character conversion, PDA-oriented output, and UTF-8 output when built with multibyte support. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** vilistextum - **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 - vilistextum - 2.6.9-1.4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: vilistextum from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | a HTML to text converter | https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/ - Ubuntu apt - vilistextum - 2.6.9-1.3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: vilistextum from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | a HTML to text converter | https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/ - zypper - vilistextum - 2.6.9-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: vilistextum from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Convert HTML to text with hyperlink references | https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/index.html ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [markdown](https://pkg.so/brew/markdown/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html, text-conversion. - [libxml2](https://pkg.so/brew/libxml2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [pandoc](https://pkg.so/brew/pandoc/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [tidy-html5](https://pkg.so/brew/tidy-html5/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [dos2unix](https://pkg.so/brew/dos2unix/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-conversion. - [weasyprint](https://pkg.so/brew/weasyprint/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [highlight](https://pkg.so/brew/highlight/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [html2text](https://pkg.so/brew/html2text/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html. - [txt2man](https://pkg.so/brew/txt2man/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ascii, cli, conversion, developer, developer-tools. - [ascii2binary](https://pkg.so/brew/ascii2binary/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ascii, cli, conversion, developer, developer-tools. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vilistextum.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vilistextum.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph