# Installer w3m avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de w3m pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:w3m
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install w3m
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install w3m
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: www/w3m/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add w3m
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: w3m from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install w3m
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: w3m from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install w3m
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: w3m 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#w3m
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/w3/w3m/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S w3m
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: w3m from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install w3m
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: w3m from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:w3m
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.6
- **Résumé source:** Pager/text based browser
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://w3m.sourceforge.net/>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-22T14:06:37-07:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- w3m (alias)
- w3mman (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.5.6
## Historique du projet et usages

w3m is a classic text-mode web browser and pager. It is remembered not just as another terminal browser, but as a fast pager-derived browser that could render tables, frames, forms, cookies, authentication, and local or remote HTML in a terminal.

### Historique du projet

Akinori Ito's own history traces w3m back to an earlier pager called fm, written before 1991 for inspecting very long debug-output lines without wrapping. After Ito learned HTML and HTTP, he modified fm into a simple web browser; the first version of w3m was released at the beginning of 1995.

The name comes from the Japanese phrase 'WWW wo miru', meaning roughly 'see the WWW', inheriting the naming pattern from fm, or 'File wo miru'. The project was originally motivated by the desire to glance quickly at web pages without starting a heavyweight graphical browser, while still keeping the pager behavior that made fm useful.

w3m's major late-1990s transition came when Ito returned to the project in 1998 and implemented a table renderer and forms. The history page describes this as w3m being reborn as a practical web browser, because table-heavy pages had become common and incomplete table rendering made many pages unusable in text mode.

### Historique d'adoption

The official SourceForge project was registered in November 2001, and the project page summarizes w3m as both a pager and text-based browser. Its FAQ also documents portability across Unix variants, OS/2, and Windows via Cygwin in the early era, reflecting the tool's spread among terminal-heavy users and ports collections.

### Modes d'utilisation

w3m is used as a terminal browser for local files and web pages, as a pager for HTML or text passed as files or standard input, and as a scriptable formatter that can turn HTML into readable terminal output. Its FAQ notes that invoking w3m without arguments exits because it behaves as a pager; normal inputs are a filename, URL, pipe, bookmark view, visual startup, or home URL.

Configuration is part of its Unix culture: the FAQ names `~/.w3m/config` as the configuration file, and w3m users commonly tune key bindings, color, proxies, external viewers, and editor integration for text-only workflows.

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

w3m matters because it occupies the intersection of pager, browser, and HTML formatter. Compared with Lynx, its project history emphasized table rendering, frame handling by conversion to tables, standard-input use, small size, and fast startup. That made it a favorite tool for reading documentation, testing HTML, browsing from remote shells, and automating text rendering of web content.

### Chronologie

- Before 1991: Ito wrote the fm pager for inspecting long debug-output lines.
- Beginning of 1995: The first version of w3m was released.
- 1998: Ito resumed development and implemented table rendering and forms.
- 1999: The English history page was published, explaining w3m's origin and design tradeoffs.
- 2001: The w3m SourceForge project was registered.
- 2020s: Maintenance continues from the source repository referenced by current curation.

### Related projects

- w3m is historically related to fm, its pager ancestor, and often compared with Lynx, the older text-mode browser. It also depends historically on Boehm GC, which Ito credited as important for implementing tables and forms.

### Sources

- <https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/>
- <https://w3m.sourceforge.net/FAQ>
- <https://w3m.sourceforge.net/MANUAL>
- <https://w3m.sourceforge.net/STORY>


## 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: ~/.w3m/config, ~/.w3m/keymap
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - w3m - 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: w3m from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
- Debian apt - w3m-img - 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: w3m-img from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | inline image extension support utilities for w3m | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
- Nix - w3m: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/w3/w3m/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - w3m - 0.5.3+git20230121-2ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: w3m from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
- Ubuntu apt - w3m-img - 0.5.3+git20230121-2ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: w3m-img from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | inline image extension support utilities for w3m | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
- apk - w3m - 0.5.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: w3m from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager | https://sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/
- apk - w3m-doc - 0.5.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: w3m-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (documentation) | https://sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/
- apk - w3m-image - 0.5.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: w3m-image from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (inline image support) | https://sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/
- apk - w3m-perl - 0.5.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: w3m-perl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (perl helper scripts) | https://sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/
- dnf - w3m - 0.5.3-69.git20230121.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: w3m from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Pager with Web browsing abilities | http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
- dnf - w3m-img - 0.5.3-69.git20230121.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: w3m-img from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Helper program to display the inline images for w3m | http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
- pacman - w3m - 0.5.6-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: w3m from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Text-based Web browser as well as pager | https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m
- zypper - w3m - 0.5.6-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: w3m from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A text-based WWW browser | https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m
- zypper - w3m-inline-image - 0.5.6-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: w3m-inline-image from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | An inline image extension for w3m | https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m
- MacPorts - w3m: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: www/w3m/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/w3m.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/w3m.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