# Installer vte3 avec Homebrew, apk, pacman

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de vte3 pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vte3
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vte3
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add vte3
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S vte3
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: vte3 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:vte3
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.84.1
- **Résumé source:** Terminal emulator widget used by GNOME terminal
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/VTE>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-08-02T06:12:30Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- vte-2.91 (alias)
- vte-2.91-gtk4 (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.84.1
## Historique du projet et usages

VTE is GNOME's virtual-terminal widget library: a reusable terminal-emulation component for GTK applications. In package-manager terms, it is infrastructure rather than an end-user terminal: graphical terminal apps link to VTE so they do not need to implement terminal parsing, pseudo-terminal handling, scrollback, selection, and GTK integration from scratch.

### Historique du projet

The GNOME wiki archive describes VTE as an LGPL-licensed library providing a virtual terminal emulator widget, with official API documentation and source hosted by GNOME. The current GNOME GitLab project record dates from 2018-05-25, which reflects the modern GitLab-hosted project record rather than the original age of the library.

### Historique d'adoption

VTE became important because terminal emulation is full of compatibility details, and GTK desktop environments needed a shared implementation. GNOME Terminal is the canonical VTE consumer, while other GTK terminal emulators and applications have historically reused the widget to embed shells or command consoles without maintaining their own emulator core.

### Modes d'utilisation

Developers use VTE by embedding `VteTerminal` in a GTK application and connecting it to a pseudo-terminal running a shell or command. Packaged `vte3` exposes the GTK 3 era library and helper/demo executables, while the upstream documentation now also covers GTK 4 API variants.

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

VTE is a classic package-nerd dependency: users may never run it directly, but many terminal packages inherit their behavior, bugs, performance, and escape-sequence support from it. When a Linux desktop terminal changes how selection, hyperlinks, scrollback, color, or shell integration works, VTE is often one of the underlying packages involved.

### Chronologie

- 2018-05-25: Current GNOME GitLab project record for `GNOME/vte` was created.
- 2020s: Upstream documentation is published through GNOME Pages for both GTK 3 and GTK 4 API surfaces.

### Related projects

- GNOME Terminal is the best-known consumer of VTE.
- GTK-based terminal emulators and IDEs use VTE as an embeddable terminal widget rather than maintaining their own complete emulator.

### Sources

- <https://gitlab.gnome.org/api/v4/projects/GNOME%2Fvte - GNOME GitLab project metadata.>
- <https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/vte/ - generated upstream VTE documentation.>
- <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/VTE - GNOME wiki archive summary, repository link, and API documentation link.>


## 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

- apk - vte3 - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-app - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-app from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library (apps) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-dbg - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library (debug symbols) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-dev - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library (development files) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-gtk4 - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-gtk4 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library (gtk4 component) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-lang - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package vte3 | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- apk - vte3-profile - 0.84.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: vte3-profile from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator library (profile files) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
- pacman - vte3 - 0.84.1-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: vte3 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Virtual Terminal Emulator widget (GTK3) | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vte3.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vte3.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
