# xmlcatmgr mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:xmlcatmgr
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install xmlcatmgr
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install xmlcatmgr
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:xmlcatmgr
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Manipulate SGML and XML catalogs
- **Homepage:** <https://xmlcatmgr.sourceforge.net/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- xmlcatmgr (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

xmlcatmgr is a deliberately small command-line utility for managing SGML and XML catalog files. Its niche is not interactive XML editing, but the boring package-install job of adding and removing catalog entries automatically.

### Projektgeschichte

The project was created to manage catalog files inside pkgsrc, the NetBSD package system. The upstream homepage explains the design pressure clearly: very small packages such as DTD packages needed catalog management without pulling in large XML libraries or helper programs.

The tool centers on catalogs as lookup tables that map public identifiers to local files or URIs, allowing parsers to find local resources without changing document sources. By version 2.2, released in 2004, xmlcatmgr had settled into the small, dependency-light utility role it still occupies.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Its adoption story is package-system-first. Upstream says it became completely integrated with many pkgsrc packages, and its portability made it a natural fit for other BSD-style ports collections that needed catalog registration during install and deinstall scripts.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package scripts use xmlcatmgr to add, remove, and look up catalog entries for SGML and XML resources. Humans may run it directly, but the more important use is unattended maintenance of shared catalog files for DocBook, DTD, stylesheet, and parser ecosystems.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

xmlcatmgr is package-nerd glue: tiny, old, and important exactly because bigger XML stacks should not be required just to register XML resources. It is a good example of a package whose value comes from install-time integration rather than daily end-user visibility.

### Zeitleiste

- 2003: FreeBSD ports carried early 0.x and 1.x xmlcatmgr releases, reflecting adoption outside pkgsrc.
- 2004-09-01: Upstream released xmlcatmgr 2.2, listed as the latest stable release on the project homepage.
- 2004 onward: xmlcatmgr remained a stable catalog-management utility for package systems and ports collections.

### Related projects

- Related projects and ecosystems include pkgsrc, NetBSD, FreeBSD ports, SGML Open catalogs, XML catalogs, DocBook DTD packages, and XML parsers that consult local catalogs.

### Quellen

- <https://jmmv.dev/software/xmlcatmgr.html>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlcatmgr/files/>
- <https://www.freshports.org/textproc/xmlcatmgr>
- <https://xmlcatmgr.sourceforge.net/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - xmlcatmgr: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/xmlcatmgr/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/xmlcatmgr.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/xmlcatmgr.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