# Installer notcurses avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de notcurses pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:notcurses
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install notcurses
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install notcurses
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: devel/notcurses/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add notcurses
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: notcurses from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install notcurses
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: notcurses from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/210a2053c8e007daf9ae39c2a21daaed9b2ddd07d63ecffa597050361e73650c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#notcurses
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/no/notcurses/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S notcurses
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: notcurses from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- Ubuntu apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libnotcurses++-dev
```

  Preuve: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses++-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install libnotcurses++3
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libnotcurses++3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:notcurses
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/notcurses>
- **Version:** 3.0.17
- **Résumé source:** Blingful character graphics/TUI library
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses>
- **Docs amont:** <https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses>
- **Licence:** Apache-2.0
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.17.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- ncls (cli)
- ncneofetch (cli)
- ncplayer (cli)
- nctetris (cli)
- notcurses-demo (cli)
- notcurses-info (cli)
- notcurses-input (cli)
- tfman (cli)
- ncls (alias)
- ncneofetch (alias)
- ncplayer (alias)
- nctetris (alias)
- notcurses-demo (alias)
- notcurses-info (alias)
- notcurses-input (alias)
- tfman (alias)

## Dépendances

- ffmpeg
- libdeflate
- libunistring
- ncurses

## Dépendances de compilation

- cmake
- doctest
- pandoc
- pkgconf

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 3.0.17
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
- dernière version détectée: v3.0.17 (à jour)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

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.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

### Chronologie

- 2019-11-26: v0.0.9 tag in the public repository.
- 2025-01-11: v3.0.13 tag in the maintained 3.x line.
- 2025-10-28: v3.0.17 release/tag, packaged by Homebrew as stable in the checked formula metadata.

### Related projects

- ncurses/terminfo, Sixel, Kitty graphics protocol, FFmpeg, OpenImageIO, libunistring, libnotcurses-sys.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/notcurses.json>
- <https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses>
- <https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases>
- <https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses>
- <https://notcurses.com/>


## Notes de sécurité

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- library-like package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** notcurses
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - notcurses: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/no/notcurses/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses++-dev - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses++-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (C++ development) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses++3 - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses++3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (C++) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses-core-dev - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses-core-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (core development) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses-core3 - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses-core3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (core) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses-dev - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (development) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - libnotcurses3 - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnotcurses3 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - notcurses-bin - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: notcurses-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library demos | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - notcurses-data - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: notcurses-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Multimedia used by notcurses-bin | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- Ubuntu apt - python3-notcurses - 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-notcurses from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Character graphics and TUI library (Python) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - ncls - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ncls from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - ncneofetch - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ncneofetch from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - notcurses - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: notcurses from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - notcurses-dbg - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: notcurses-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library (debug symbols) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - notcurses-demo - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: notcurses-demo from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
- apk - notcurses-dev - 3.0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: notcurses-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | blingful character graphics and TUI library (development files) | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses


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


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