# gfxutil mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gfxutil in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gfxutil
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gfxutil
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gfxutil
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/gfxutil/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gfxutil
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gfxutil>
- **Version:** 1.84b
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Device Properties conversion tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- **Lizenz:** LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil/archive/refs/tags/1.84b.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- gfxutil (cli)
- gfxutil (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 1.84b
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

gfxutil is a small macOS command-line utility for working with Apple EFI Device Properties data, most often encountered in Hackintosh, bootloader, and firmware-adjacent workflows.

### Projektgeschichte

The Acidanthera repository describes gfxutil as a tool by mcmatrix for Device Properties commonly found in Apple Mac firmwares, with usage examples and changelogs linked to the older netkas.org community forum. The GitHub repository was opened in 2018 as an Acidanthera-hosted source tree, but the README points to an earlier community lineage outside GitHub.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

gfxutil became useful in a narrow ecosystem: people editing or translating macOS device-property data for bootloaders and EFI configuration. Its Homebrew and MacPorts packaging made a formerly forum-distributed utility easier to install on developer and hobbyist Macs.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use gfxutil to inspect and convert device paths and property blobs when preparing macOS hardware configuration data, especially when matching PCI device paths to injected properties.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is significant mainly because it preserves a specialized Apple-firmware utility in a reproducible source repository and package-manager form, rather than leaving it only as a forum attachment or local build.

### Zeitleiste

- 2007: The bundled manual page date records an early Darwin-era documentation stub.
- 2018: The Acidanthera GitHub repository was created and published release 1.76b.
- 2024: Release 1.84b was published from the Acidanthera repository.

### Related projects

- The README builds against Acidanthera's audk edk2 tree, placing gfxutil near the OpenCore and Apple-firmware tooling ecosystem.

### Quellen

- <http://forum.netkas.org/index.php?topic=64.0>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/acidanthera/gfxutil/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gfxutil>
- <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidanthera/gfxutil/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** gfxutil
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Requirements:** macos, xcode
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - gfxutil: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/gfxutil/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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- [liquidctl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/liquidctl/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, device, hardware, system.
- [pciutils](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pciutils/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, device, hardware, system.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gfxutil.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gfxutil.yml)


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- pkg.so package database
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- 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
