macOS
brew install notcursesprovider-native install command
brew / Rang 4186
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Installation
brew install notcursesprovider-native install command
Überblick
Blingful character graphics/TUI library
Verlauf
Notcurses is Nick Black's modern terminal graphics and TUI library. It deliberately is not a source-compatible ncurses replacement; it targets Unicode, 24-bit color, multimedia, terminal bitmap graphics, keyboard protocols, and high-performance full-screen terminal applications.
The public tag history begins with v0.0.9 on 2019-11-26 and moves quickly through early 0.x releases. The README frames the project as an answer to the limits of the X/Open Curses model: Notcurses assumes modern terminal capabilities and degrades downward, rather than starting from the least capable terminal and forcing applications to climb upward manually.
By the 3.x line, Notcurses had accumulated a large surface area: C and C++ APIs, Python bindings, documentation, man pages, demos, terminal capability diagnostics, and bundled demonstration tools. The repository release history shows v3.0.17 on 2025-10-28, while the Homebrew formula checked here packaged 3.0.17.
Notcurses is adopted mostly by terminal-interface enthusiasts, systems programmers, and distribution/package maintainers rather than by mainstream app developers. Its README advertises packaging status across repositories via Repology badges and lists wrappers for Ada, C++, Dart, Julia, Nim, Python, Rust, Zig, and Raku, which is a stronger ecosystem signal than raw Homebrew usage. Homebrew reported 882 installs over the 365-day window in the formula JSON.
Practical usage falls into two camps: developers link against libnotcurses to build vivid TUIs, and users install the package for its bundled tools. The installed tools include ncls for multimedia-aware directory listings, ncplayer for rendering visual media, notcurses-demo for capability demos, notcurses-info for terminal diagnostics, notcurses-input for decoding keypresses, nctetris, ncneofetch, and tfman.
Package maintainers care about its optional dependency shape. The README documents CMake, C17, terminfo from ncurses, libunistring, optional FFmpeg/OpenImageIO/mouse/QR dependencies, generated man pages, and the ability to build without multimedia support to reduce dependency weight.
Notcurses is important as a stress test for terminal capability packaging. It exercises terminfo correctness, Unicode locale setup, graphics protocols such as Sixel and Kitty, and multimedia dependency choices in a way most small TUI libraries do not.
Sicherheitslage
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
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Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
ncls | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
ncneofetch | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
ncplayer | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
nctetris | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
notcurses-demo | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
notcurses-info | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
notcurses-input | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
tfman | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
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Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:notcurses |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.17 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses |
| Repository | https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
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View the package source record on GitHub.