# libmwaw mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:libmwaw
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libmwaw
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install libmwaw
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add libmwaw
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libmwaw from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install libmwaw
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libmwaw from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#libmwaw
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libmwaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S libmwaw
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: libmwaw from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libmwaw-0.3-3
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: libmwaw-0.3-3 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install libmwaw-0_3-3
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libmwaw-0_3-3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:libmwaw
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.23
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Library for converting legacy Mac document formats
- **Homepage:** <https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/wiki/Home/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mwaw2csv (Alias)
- mwaw2html (Alias)
- mwaw2raw (Alias)
- mwaw2svg (Alias)
- mwaw2text (Alias)
- mwawFile (Alias)
- mwawZip (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3.23
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

libmwaw is a Document Liberation Project library for converting many pre-OSX Mac document formats, including old word-processing, graphics, spreadsheet, and presentation formats.

### Projektgeschichte

The SourceForge wiki describes libmwaw as a project for converting many pre-OSX Mac text formats plus some graphics and spreadsheet formats. Its supported-format table covers applications such as MacWrite, ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, Microsoft Word for Mac, Nisus Writer, WriteNow, RagTime, and others.

The project fits into the Document Liberation Project's broader strategy of extracting proprietary and obsolete document parsers into standalone libraries. The Document Foundation's 2015 DLP retrospective says Laurent Alonso added support for more than twenty legacy Mac formats to libmwaw.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

libmwaw's adoption is concentrated in office-suite and conversion workflows that need to recover files from classic Mac applications. The wiki documents batch-conversion utilities for macOS and an online conversion experiment that emits OpenDocument-family output for LibreOffice and related tools.

In 2017, The Document Foundation reported new libmwaw work for PowerPoint 2, PowerPoint 4, and PowerPoint for Windows 95 import filters, showing that the library expanded beyond its initial Mac-writing focus into adjacent legacy presentation formats.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Packaged builds expose tools such as mwaw2html, mwaw2raw, mwaw2svg, mwaw2text, mwaw2csv, mwawFile, and mwawZip. The practical workflow is forensic: identify a legacy file, parse whatever structure is recoverable, and export text, graphics, or OpenDocument-compatible content.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

libmwaw is significant because it preserves the ability to read forgotten personal-computing formats without requiring the original classic Mac applications. For packagers, it is one of the more charming DLP libraries: narrow, strange, and invaluable when a user turns up with a decades-old document.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014-04: The Document Liberation Project is born within The Document Foundation framework.
- 2015-04-09: The Document Foundation reports more than twenty legacy Mac formats added to libmwaw.
- 2017-08-28: The Document Foundation reports libmwaw import-filter work for old PowerPoint formats.
- 2018-06-13: The libmwaw wiki notes an update to its browser-based conversion experiment.
- 2020s: libmwaw remains packaged across Unix package managers as a legacy-document conversion library.

### Related projects

- libmwaw is part of the same Document Liberation ecosystem as libmspub, libwps, libvisio, libpagemaker, libqxp, and libfreehand. The wiki also points to librevenge as the common framework used by these document-conversion libraries.

### Quellen

- <https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/08/28/updates-document-liberation-project/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libmwaw>
- <https://lwn.net/Articles/640198/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/libmwaw/ci/master/tree>
- <https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/wiki/Home/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/>
- <https://www.documentliberation.org/about/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für libmwaw wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - libmwaw-0.3-3 - 0.3.22-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmwaw-0.3-3 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | import library for some old Mac text documents | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Debian apt - libmwaw-dev - 0.3.22-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmwaw-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- development | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Debian apt - libmwaw-doc - 0.3.22-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmwaw-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- documentation | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Debian apt - libmwaw-tools - 0.3.22-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmwaw-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- tools | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Nix - libmwaw: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libmwaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libmwaw-0.3-3 - 0.3.22-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmwaw-0.3-3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | import library for some old Mac text documents | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Ubuntu apt - libmwaw-dev - 0.3.22-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmwaw-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- development | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Ubuntu apt - libmwaw-doc - 0.3.22-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmwaw-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- documentation | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- Ubuntu apt - libmwaw-tools - 0.3.22-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmwaw-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | import library for some old Mac text documents -- tools | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw
- apk - libmwaw - 0.3.22-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libmwaw from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Import filter and tools for old Mac documents | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- apk - libmwaw-dev - 0.3.22-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libmwaw-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Import filter and tools for old Mac documents (development files) | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- apk - libmwaw-doc - 0.3.22-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libmwaw-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Import filter and tools for old Mac documents (documentation) | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- apk - libmwaw-tools - 0.3.22-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libmwaw-tools from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Import filter and tools for old Mac documents | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- dnf - libmwaw - 0.3.22-9.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libmwaw from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A library for import of many old Mac document formats | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- dnf - libmwaw-devel - 0.3.22-9.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libmwaw-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for libmwaw | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/
- dnf - libmwaw-doc - 0.3.22-9.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libmwaw-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Documentation of libmwaw API | http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph