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

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:lv
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install lv
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install lv
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install lv
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install lv
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lv 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#lv
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:lv
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.51-10.1
- **Résumé source:** Powerful multi-lingual file viewer/grep
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- lgrep (alias)
- lv (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.51-10.1
## Historique du projet et usages

lv is a multilingual file viewer and grep-like tool originally by NARITA Tomio. It looks like a less-style pager but adds character-set conversion, multilingual regular expressions, Unicode handling, and the `lgrep` mode.

### Historique du projet

The upstream README in the Debian source records copyright years beginning in 1996 and points to NARITA Tomio's original web documentation. The bundled man page describes lv as a completely original implementation, not code derived from less, grep, or other programs.

Release notes show active upstream work through the early 2000s, including Debian-related patches and portability fixes. Version 4.51 was released in January 2004, while later distribution maintenance continued through Debian packaging updates.

### Historique d'adoption

lv's adoption is mostly distribution-driven rather than community-site driven. It survives in Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Fedora-family packaging, and other Unix package collections because it solves a durable terminal problem: viewing and searching multilingual text on older and mixed-encoding systems.

The Debian changelog shows ongoing packaging maintenance into 2026, including modern compiler compatibility work, even though the upstream feature history is much older.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run `lv` as a terminal pager and `lgrep` as the grep mode. The man page documents options for input, keyboard, output, pathname, and fallback coding systems, with examples for ISO-8859, Shift-JIS, EUC, Big5, HZ, UTF-7, and UTF-8.

The official man page documents a `.lv` configuration file in the user's home directory, an `_lv` file for MSDOS, and the `LV` environment variable. Command-line options are read last, so they override file and environment settings.

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

lv is the kind of old terminal utility package that remains valuable precisely because modern stacks still encounter old encodings. For package maintainers it is a small C program with a long tail: patches, portability fixes, and distro maintenance preserve behavior that newer pagers do not always cover.

### Chronologie

- 1996: Copyright start year recorded in the upstream README.
- 2003: Debian-related patches incorporated in upstream 4.50 release notes.
- 2004: lv 4.51 release notes published.
- 2026: Debian changelog records a compiler-compatibility non-maintainer upload.

### Related projects

- less is the familiar pager interface that lv intentionally resembles.
- nkf and tcs are comparable coding-system translation tools mentioned by the lv man page.
- grep is the model for the `lgrep` mode.

### Sources

- <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv/-/raw/master/README>
- <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv/-/raw/master/debian/changelog>
- <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv/-/raw/master/lv.1>
- <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv/-/raw/master/relnote.html>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.lv
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - lv - 4.51-10: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: lv from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Powerful Multilingual File Viewer
- Nix - lv: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - lv - 4.51-9: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: lv from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Powerful Multilingual File Viewer
- dnf - lv - 4.51-58.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lv from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A Powerful Multilingual File Viewer | http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~nrt/lv/
- MacPorts - lv: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/lv/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/lv.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/lv.yml)


## Sources

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