# Installer mdcat avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mdcat pour les workflows d'agents IA. ## installation ```sh sudo av install brew:mdcat ``` Commandes d'installation supplémentaires: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install mdcat ``` Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install mdcat ``` Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/mdcat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#mdcat ``` Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: mdcat from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/mdcat ``` Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mdcat.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Faits du paquet - **Clé du paquet:** brew:mdcat - **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew - **Version:** 2.14.0 - **Résumé source:** Show markdown documents on text terminals - **Page d'accueil:** - **Dépôt:** - **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-27T13:02:59Z - **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## exécutables - mdcat (alias) ## Comportement d'installation - Bouteille: non disponible ## Version et fraîcheur - page générée: 2026-08-03 - version du gestionnaire: 2.14.0 ## Historique du projet et usages mdcat is a Rust command-line renderer for Markdown/CommonMark documents in text terminals. It sits in the same user niche as cat, less, glow, and mdless, but emphasizes modern terminal features such as OSC 8 links, syntax highlighting, inline image protocols, math rendering, and terminal-specific navigation marks. ### Historique du projet The mdcat crate was first published on crates.io in January 2018. Its current README credits Sebastian Wiesner and Mouhieddine Sabir in the copyright notice and says the project is now maintained by BIRSAx2. The upstream changelog shows an active 2.x line through 2024 and 2026: version 2.4.0 added limited table support in September 2024, version 2.7.0 moved remote resource handling to curl in November 2024, version 2.8.0 transferred maintenance to BIRSAx2 in June 2026, and version 2.9.0 added footnote and math rendering shortly afterward. ### Historique d'adoption mdcat moved from a Rust crate into mainstream package-manager culture. The input facts list packages in Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Scoop, while the Homebrew formula reported stable version 2.9.1 and installation analytics in 2026. Crates.io reported about 190,000 total downloads and a 2026 newest version of 2.9.1, which makes mdcat one of the better-known Rust terminal Markdown viewers rather than a one-off sample program. ### Modes d'utilisation Typical use is direct terminal viewing, for example `mdcat README.md`, with optional use as `mdless` when installed or linked that way for paging. Packagers are expected to consider shell completions and a man page built from `mdcat.1.adoc`. The README documents best results in terminals with modern graphics and link protocols, including iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty, foot, and Sixel-capable xterm setups. It also documents a troubleshooting path through the `MDCAT_LOG` environment variable rather than a persistent configuration file. ### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent mdcat is interesting to package maintainers because it is a terminal UI tool whose quality depends on optional terminal capabilities and native libraries, especially libcurl and image-rendering support. That gives formulas and distro packages more surface area than a plain text filter. It is also a useful marker for the Rust CLI wave: a small binary distributed through Cargo, Homebrew, Nix-style systems, and other package managers, with release artifacts and generated shell completions as package extras. ### Chronologie - 2018: mdcat crate first published on crates.io. - 2024: The 2.x series added table support, shell completion generation, Ghostty image support, and curl-backed remote resources. - 2026: Version 2.8.0 moved maintenance to BIRSAx2. - 2026: Version 2.9.0 added footnote and math rendering. ### Related projects - The README positions mdcat near terminal pagers and Markdown viewers, and documents `mdless` compatibility by allowing the binary to be linked or copied as `mdless` for automatic pagination. - Its implementation relies on terminal ecosystem pieces such as syntect for code highlighting, resvg for SVG rendering, OSC 8 hyperlinks, and iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm, and Sixel graphics protocols. ### Sources - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Notes de sécurité Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour mdcat. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable. ## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets - Nix - mdcat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: mdcat from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - MacPorts - mdcat: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/mdcat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Scoop - main/mdcat: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mdcat.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mdcat.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mdcat.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph