# lolcrab mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:lolcrab
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install lolcrab
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:lolcrab
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Make your console colorful, with OpenSimplex noise
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- lolcrab (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.4.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

`lolcrab` is a Rust terminal colorizer that describes itself as like `lolcat` but with OpenSimplex-style noise and more color. It reads files or standard input and colorizes terminal output with gradients, animation, and configurable noise parameters.

### Projektgeschichte

The official README says `lolcrab` is a fork of `lcat-rs`, placing it in the family of playful terminal color filters descended from `lolcat`. The GitHub repository was created in 2021, and GitHub releases show the public 0.2 through 0.4 series continuing into 2025.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

`lolcrab` is distributed as a Rust crate and through package-manager channels. Its README points users to precompiled Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries on GitHub releases, documents `cargo install lolcrab`, and includes a Repology packaging badge; the batch input records Homebrew packaging.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The CLI accepts files or standard input, defaults to a rainbow gradient, and exposes options for gradient selection, custom CSS gradients, noise scale, seed, inverted/background coloring, animation, and version/help output. The README also documents library use from Rust through `Lolcrab::new` and `colorize_str`.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

`lolcrab` is small but package-catalog-friendly: it is a cross-platform terminal toy, a Rust binary crate, and a modern variant of the long-running `lolcat` terminal-filter idea. It is useful when testing packaging of Rust CLI tools with release binaries and Cargo installation paths.

### Zeitleiste

- 2021: `mazznoer/lolcrab` repository created on GitHub.
- 2022: v0.2.0 release published on GitHub.
- 2024: v0.4.0 release published on GitHub.
- 2025: v0.4.1 release published on GitHub.

### Related projects

- `lcat-rs` is the upstream project named in the README as the fork source.
- `lolcat` is the older terminal-colorizer concept that `lolcrab` explicitly references.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/mazznoer/lolcrab>
- <https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab#readme>
- <https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab/releases/tag/v0.4.1>
- source_facts.package-manager-url


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph