# vipsdisp mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vipsdisp
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vipsdisp
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install vipsdisp
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vipsdisp
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/vipsdisp
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/vipsdisp.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:vipsdisp
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.1.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Viewer for large images
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-07T14:59:01Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- vipsdisp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 4.1.4
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

vipsdisp is a small GTK4/libvips image viewer built for opening very large images quickly while using little memory. It inherits libvips' niche strengths: tiled, pyramidal, scientific, high-bit-depth, multi-page, and unusual technical image formats that ordinary viewers often struggle with.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created in June 2015, but the changelog presents the modern app history around its GTK4 generation: version 1.0 is labeled the first GTK4 release, version 2.0 started in September 2021 with a new rendering system, smooth zoom, pages-as-bands mode, and better pyramid detection, and later 2.x releases added GTK4 Wayland, animations, color management, save options, and better OME-TIFF handling.

The 3.x and 4.x series refined the viewer from a specialist demo into a practical desktop utility: next/previous image browsing, copy/paste and drag/drop, properties display, animated JXL, high-DPI support, Windows icon and binaries, UltraHDR/camera RAW support noted in release metadata, and further repaint improvements copied from nip4's image widget.

### Wie es verwendet wird

vipsdisp is used to inspect huge or technical images interactively: pathology slides, OpenEXR/FITS/Matlab/NIfTI/Analyze data, OME-TIFF-like multi-page images, high dynamic range images, camera RAW, and conventional PNG/JPEG/WebP/JXL/TIFF/PDF/SVG inputs. It computes only the visible tiles needed for display, keeps sparse texture pyramids on the GPU, and offers false color, log-scale, scale/offset, metadata, save-as, multi-page, animated, and pages-as-bands display modes.

The README notes that the same image widget is used by nip4, the libvips image-processing spreadsheet. That makes vipsdisp both a standalone viewer and a reusable display component in the libvips GUI family.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package users, vipsdisp fills the gap between a command-line image library and heavyweight scientific viewers. It is the quick sanity-check tool for files that are too large, too tiled, too many-paged, or too numerically exotic for ordinary desktop viewers.

### Zeitleiste

- 2015-06: The vipsdisp repository was created.
- 2021-09: The 2.0 development line began with a new rendering system and smooth zoom.
- 2023-09: Version 2.6 added color management and caching/display improvements.
- 2024-03: Version 3.0.4 era added next/previous image, copy/paste, drag/drop, reload, and multi-file loading.
- 2025-05: Version 4.0.0 was redone around a revised nip4 image-view widget.
- 2026-04: Version 4.1.4 was released, with libvips 8.18-related file limit handling and navigation improvements.

### Related projects

- vipsdisp is directly related to libvips and nip4; it sits beside command-line tools such as vips and vipsthumbnail as the GUI viewer for large and technical images.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/libvips/vipsdisp>
- <https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp>
- <https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp/blob/master/org.libvips.vipsdisp.metainfo.xml>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - vipsdisp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vi/vipsdisp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - vipsdisp: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: graphics/vipsdisp/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/vipsdisp: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/vipsdisp.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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