# Installer diction avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:diction
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install diction
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install diction
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install diction
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install diction
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: diction from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#diction
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:diction
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11
- **Résumé source:** GNU diction and style
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- diction (alias)
- style (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.11
## Historique du projet et usages

GNU diction packages two old Unix-style writing aids, diction and style, as free software. The tools scan prose for wordy or commonly misused phrases and report surface readability measures from the command line.

### Historique du projet

The GNU source release describes diction and style as free implementations of older standard Unix commands that disappeared from many modern systems after being unbundled. Its manual page says the historical diction command came from old Unix systems and the AT&T Documenter's Workbench, while GNU diction is a reimplementation that can be paired with deroff, dehtml, or detex.

The 1.11 release tarball records support for Dutch, GPLv3 licensing, and autoconf 2.61. The GNU FTP archive shows public GNU releases from 0.7 in 1998 through 1.11 in 2007.

### Historique d'adoption

GNU diction's adoption story is modest and package-manager oriented: it keeps a small, classic prose-checking command available on systems where the original Unix tools are no longer bundled. Its value is strongest for users who like scriptable text filters rather than editor-integrated writing assistants.

### Modes d'utilisation

diction reads files or standard input and marks sentences containing phrases from its language databases; style reports readability and other surface characteristics. The manual documents pipelines with deroff for roff documents, and similar use with dehtml or detex for HTML and TeX.

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

The package is a small example of GNU preserving an old Unix userland niche: plain text in, diagnostics out, no service, no account, and no project-local configuration.

### Chronologie

- 1997: GNU diction copyright range begins in the 1.11 manual page.
- 1998: diction 0.7 appears in the GNU FTP archive.
- 2007: diction 1.11 is released with Dutch support and GPLv3 licensing.

### Related projects

- AT&T DWB diction/style, deroff, dehtml, detex, and fmt are the closest historical and pipeline neighbors.

### Sources

- <https://www.gnu.org/software/diction>
- <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diction.git>
- <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/>
- <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/diction-1.11.tar.gz>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - diction - 1.14-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: diction from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Utilities to help with style and diction (English and German) | http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
- Nix - diction: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/di/diction/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - diction - 1.14-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: diction from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Utilities to help with style and diction (English and German) | http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
- dnf - diction - 1.14-14.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: diction from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Identifies diction and style errors | http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
- MacPorts - diction: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/diction/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/diction.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/diction.yml)


## Sources

- 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