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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
X.Org: X Pixmap (XPM) image file format library
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- cxpm
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
libXpm is the X.Org library for the X Pixmap image format, the text-based color-pixmap format associated with X11 icons, cursors, and small UI images. It packages both the legacy file format support and the cxpm validation utility.
Projektgeschichte
The X.Org repository README identifies libXpm as the X Pixmap image file format library and points development to freedesktop.org GitLab. The preserved NEWS.old file carries Groupe Bull copyright years 1989-95 and a detailed history of user-visible library changes through the 1990s.
The XPM format grew out of XBM's C-source-friendly bitmap model into a color pixmap format with symbolic colors and transparency. X.Org's archived sxpm manual documents support for XPM versions 1, 2, and 3 and describes sxpm as a viewer and converter for older XPM files.
Adoptionsgeschichte
libXpm was adopted because X11 applications needed small color icons and pixmaps in a format that could be stored as plain text and embedded in C source. The library traveled with X.Org and downstream distributions, so applications could keep reading old XPM assets without each toolkit carrying its own parser.
Wie es verwendet wird
Applications use libXpm to read and write XPM data as X images or pixmaps, while the cxpm tool checks XPM files. Package builds also care about its optional compressed-file behavior because historically libXpm could invoke compress, uncompress, or gzip when opening .Z or .gz pixmap files.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
libXpm is a classic example of X11 compatibility baggage that still matters. It is small, old, and easy to overlook, yet it appears in dependency graphs for graphical software and has had security-sensitive parser behavior, including compressed-file handling and fixes for malformed image inputs.
Zeitleiste
- 1989: Groupe Bull copyright begins for the XPM code preserved in NEWS.old.
- 1995: NEWS.old copyright range ends at 1989-95 while 3.4-era releases continue.
- 1996: libXpm 3.4h and 3.4j entries document portability and API improvements.
- 1998: libXpm 3.4k added the cxpm checker according to NEWS.old.
- 2009: X.Org archived the X11R7.5 sxpm manual describing XPM 1, 2, and 3 support.
Related projects
- libXpm belongs to the X.Org/X11 library family and is related to XBM, Xlib image and pixmap APIs, sxpm, cxpm, and older desktop icon assets used by X applications.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:library-like
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
cxpm | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version3.5.19
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:libxpm |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.5.19 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.x.org/ |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation