# mdfried mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mdfried in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:mdfried ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install mdfried ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install mdfried ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/mdfried/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#mdfried ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/md/mdfried/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S mdfried ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: mdfried from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:mdfried - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.22.4 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Terminal markdown viewer - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-21T18:47:21Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - mdfried (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 0.22.4 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung mdfried is a Rust terminal Markdown viewer and pager focused on rich terminal graphics. Its distinctive feature is rendering Markdown headings as genuinely larger text or images when the terminal supports a graphics or text-sizing protocol. ### Projektgeschichte The GitHub repository was created in December 2024, and the crates.io package was first published later that month. The project iterated rapidly through 2025 and 2026, reaching the 0.22 series by June 2026. The changelog shows the tool expanding from a visual Markdown viewer into a featureful terminal document browser: tree-sitter Markdown parsing, link navigation, URL and GitHub README opening, syntax highlighting, Mermaid rendering, image opening, OSC 8 clickable links, and experimental PDF support all appear in the documented 2026 releases. ### Adoptionsgeschichte mdfried is newer than mdcat and mdless but already has package-manager presence. The input facts list Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and pacman-family packaging, while the README advertises Cargo installation, a Nix flake, release binaries, `.deb` files, and Mac and Windows binaries. Crates.io reported the crate's creation in December 2024 and about 15,000 total downloads by 2026. Homebrew's formula tracked stable version 0.22.4 with install analytics, evidence of early but real CLI-tool adoption. ### Wie es verwendet wird The basic invocation is `mdfried ./path/to.md`. It can also open URLs that serve Markdown and `github:owner/repo` targets when a README exists on the default branch. On first run, users may choose a font if automatic detection is not enough; the selection is written to `~/.config/mdfried/config.toml`. `--setup` repeats font setup and `--print-config` prints a fuller configuration example. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren mdfried is notable because it pushes terminal Markdown viewing into the modern graphics-terminal era. Packaging it involves more than installing a text filter: the formula includes chafa and GTK/glib-related dependencies through Homebrew, and runtime behavior varies by terminal image protocol. For package nerds, it is also a fast-moving Rust package that crosses Cargo, Nix, Homebrew, binary releases, and Debian-style artifacts while still pre-1.0. ### Zeitleiste - 2024: GitHub repository and crates.io package appeared in December. - 2026: Version 0.18.0 used tree-sitter/tree-sitter-md for Markdown parsing. - 2026: Version 0.20.1 added URL and GitHub README opening. - 2026: Version 0.21.0 added code syntax highlighting and Mermaid rendering. - 2026: Version 0.22.0 added OSC 8 clickable links. ### Related projects - mdfried overlaps with mdcat and mdless as a terminal Markdown viewer, but it emphasizes large rendered headings, rich image support, pager navigation, and terminal graphics protocols. - Its README references ratatui-image, chafa, arborium, mermaid rendering, Sixel, kitty, and iTerm2 protocols as important parts of its ecosystem. ### Quellen - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Sicherheitshinweise Für mdfried wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.config/mdfried/config.toml ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - mdfried: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/md/mdfried/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - mdfried - 0.22.4-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: mdfried from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A markdown viewer for the terminal that renders images and big headers | https://github.com/benjajaja/mdfried - MacPorts - mdfried: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/mdfried/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mdfried.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mdfried.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph