# vilistextum mit Homebrew, apt, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vilistextum
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vilistextum
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install vilistextum
```

  Evidenz: 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
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: vilistextum from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:vilistextum
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vilistextum>
- **Version:** 2.6.9
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** HTML to text converter
- **Homepage:** <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-only
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/vilistextum-2.6.9.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- vilistextum (cli)
- vilistextum (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 2.6.9
- lokale Daten: 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.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

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.

### Projektgeschichte

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.

### Wie es verwendet wird

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.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

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.

### Zeitleiste

- 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.

### Quellen

- <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/htmlmail.html>
- <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/index.html>
- <https://bhaak.net/vilistextum/manual.html>
- <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vilistextum>


## 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:** vilistextum
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- 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


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- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/de/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [markdown](https://pkg.so/de/brew/markdown/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html, text-conversion.
- [libxml2](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libxml2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [pandoc](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pandoc/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [tidy-html5](https://pkg.so/de/brew/tidy-html5/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [dos2unix](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dos2unix/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-conversion.
- [weasyprint](https://pkg.so/de/brew/weasyprint/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [highlight](https://pkg.so/de/brew/highlight/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [html2text](https://pkg.so/de/brew/html2text/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html.
- [txt2man](https://pkg.so/de/brew/txt2man/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ascii, cli, conversion, developer, developer-tools.
- [ascii2binary](https://pkg.so/de/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)


## Quellen

- 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
