# Install viu with Cargo

View images right from the terminal. Version 1.6.1 via Cargo; verified 2025-12-15. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#viu.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:viu
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install viu
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cargo:viu
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager page:** <https://crates.io/crates/viu>
- **Version:** 1.6.1
- **Source summary:** View images right from the terminal.
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/atanunq/viu>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/viu/viu-1.6.1.crate>
- **Published:** 2025-12-15 10:20:41.73002+00
- **Last updated:** 2025-12-15 10:20:41.73002+00
- **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00

## Executables

- viu (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-11-04
- Package-manager version: 1.6.1

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for viu. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** crates.io database dump
- **Crate ID:** 131,614
- **Crate Size:** 18,605
- **Edition:** 2021
- **Executable Intent:** Intent: public_cli, Signals: crate has no library target, archive contains src/main.rs, binary name matches crate name
- **Has Lib:** no
- **Num Versions:** 15
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Version ID:** 1,881,622

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - viu: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vi/viu/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - viu - 1.6.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: viu from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Terminal image viewer | https://github.com/atanunq/viu
- apk - viu-doc - 1.6.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: viu-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Terminal image viewer (documentation) | https://github.com/atanunq/viu
- pacman - viu - 1.6.1-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: viu from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Simple terminal image viewer | https://github.com/atanunq/viu
- zypper - viu - 1.5.1-1.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: viu from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d310d5a96106e1e8872a385adf98aaa23be9db5d80937a6717314e7e7f37715065c6c748ab7ccee6475d620b46979c0fe64235fc0c46988e17edf659578fcf31-primary.xml.zst | Terminal image viewer with native support | https://github.com/atanunq/viu
- MacPorts - viu: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: graphics/viu/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [viu](https://pkg.so/brew/viu/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- crates.io package index
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph