# distribution を Homebrew, Nix, zypper でインストール

distribution のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:distribution
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install distribution
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#distribution
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install distribution-registry
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:distribution
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.3
- **ソース概要:** Create ASCII graphical histograms in the terminal
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/time-less-ness/distribution>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/time-less-ness/distribution>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- distribution (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.3
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

distribution is a terminal histogram and graphing tool for turning command output into character-based charts. Its appeal is the old Unix habit of inserting one small filter into a pipeline to make text data easier to inspect.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The README says the original scripts were written in Perl and Python by Tim Ellis, then expanded beyond simple frequency histograms into time-series and arbitrary x-axis graphs. The current canonical README also records a project-control transfer from the previous maintainer to wizzat.

### 採用の歴史

distribution's own installation notes mention Homebrew as the simple install route, while the input package facts show availability in Brew and Nix. That is modest adoption, but enough to place it in the family of small terminal data-inspection packages.

### 使われ方

The common pattern is to pipe a list, count stream, syslog slice, process list, or du output into distribution and let it render a proportional ASCII or Unicode chart. It supports tokenization, pre-aggregated key/value input, numeric-only graphs, colors, terminal-size aware output, and an rcfile for preferred defaults.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

distribution is package-nerdy because it makes ad hoc shell observability friendlier without asking users to leave the terminal or produce a heavyweight plot. It is the kind of tiny data tool that survives in package managers because it composes with everything.

### タイムライン

- 2017: Current canonical GitHub repository created.
- 2017: README records transfer of project control to the wizzat distribution repository.
- 2022: Repository metadata shows continued maintenance activity into the early 2020s.

### Related projects

- The README names holman's spark as a related compact graphing project, contrasting spark's smaller output with distribution's more verbose higher-resolution charts.
- Standard Unix tools such as sort, uniq, du, awk, and ps are common upstream producers for distribution pipelines.

### ソース

- <https://github.com/time-less-ness/distribution#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/time-less-ness/distribution>


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - distribution: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/di/distribution/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - distribution-registry - 3.1.1-4.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: distribution-registry from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Registry server following OCI Distribution Specification | https://github.com/distribution/distribution


## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

- 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