# vramsteg mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vramsteg
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vramsteg
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install vramsteg
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install vramsteg
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: vramsteg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:vramsteg
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Add progress bars to command-line applications
- **Homepage:** <https://gothenburgbitfactory.org/vramsteg/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/vramsteg>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- vramsteg (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.1.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

vramsteg is a small Gothenburg Bit Factory command-line progress-bar utility. Its name is a play on the Swedish word framsteg, meaning progress, and it is meant to add progress indicators to shell scripts or other command-line programs.

### Projektgeschichte

Gothenburg Bit Factory presents vramsteg as a script-language-agnostic CLI progress bar with support for colors, labels, percentage completion, elapsed time, and time estimates. The project is closely associated with the same organization behind Taskwarrior and is documented as being used in that project's test suites.

Taskwarrior project news announced vramsteg 1.1.0 on September 26, 2015, describing the release as bug fixes plus 64-bit value support. The current project page still centers the same simple role: adding progress-bar capability to programs that can call vramsteg repeatedly during a long iterative operation.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Public adoption appears modest and utility-driven rather than broad. Its packaging in Unix-like package managers and the existence of a manpage reflect enough use to preserve it as a reusable command-line helper, but the upstream story is intentionally small.

The strongest adoption signal is internal and ecosystem-specific: Gothenburg Bit Factory says it uses vramsteg in its own test suites, making the tool part of the Taskwarrior-adjacent CLI tooling culture.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A script calls vramsteg with minimum, maximum, and current values to render or update a progress bar, optionally adding labels, colors, elapsed time, estimates, percentage display, width, or style settings. It can also remove a progress bar or report a start timestamp for elapsed-time calculations.

Its role overlaps with hand-written shell progress bars, but it lets scripts offload terminal rendering details to a reusable executable.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

vramsteg is notable mainly as a tiny packaged CLI affordance: it turns progress display into a composable command rather than code copied into every shell script.

It is a good example of a small utility whose value comes from being available everywhere through package managers, not from being a large standalone application.

### Zeitleiste

- 2015: vramsteg 1.1.0 is announced with bug fixes and 64-bit value support.
- 2020s: Gothenburg Bit Factory continues to host the project page and source repository.

### Related projects

- vramsteg is related to Taskwarrior and Gothenburg Bit Factory's command-line tooling ecosystem.
- It also belongs to the broader family of terminal progress helpers used by shell scripts and command-line programs.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/vramsteg>
- <https://gothenburgbitfactory.org/vramsteg/>
- <https://linux.die.net/man/1/vramsteg>
- <https://taskwarrior.org/news/news.20150926/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - vramsteg - 1.1.0-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: vramsteg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | provide shell scripts with a full-featured progress indicator | http://tasktools.org/projects/vramsteg.html
- Ubuntu apt - vramsteg - 1.1.0-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: vramsteg from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | provide shell scripts with a full-featured progress indicator | http://tasktools.org/projects/vramsteg.html
- MacPorts - vramsteg: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/vramsteg/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/vramsteg.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vramsteg.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