# wv2 を Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix でインストール

wv2 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:wv2
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wv2
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install wv2
```

  証拠: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/wv2/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#wv2
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wv/wv2/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:wv2
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 0.4.2
- **ソース概要:** Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents
- **ホームページ:** <https://wvware.sourceforge.net/>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- wv2-config (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: 0.4.2
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

wv2 is a C++ Microsoft Word binary-document access library associated with the older wvWare project. Its package-manager niche is not an end-user converter as much as a compatibility library for software that needed to import legacy .doc files.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The wvWare project began as mswordview and was renamed after the maintainers judged the original name too close to Microsoft's Word Viewer. The wv project supplied code for reading Word 6, 95, 97, and 2000 formats, and its site records use by AbiWord and influence on KWord's importer.

wv2 appeared as the intended second-generation library. A Debian intent-to-package notice for wv2 0.0.9 described it as a library for accessing Microsoft Word documents and as an eventual replacement for the wv library, with upstream authors from the AbiWord and KDE/KWord orbit.

### 採用の歴史

The historical adoption story is mostly desktop-office plumbing: wvWare states that its library was used by AbiWord, while wv2 was packaged by Unix distributions as a Word import library for KWord/KOffice-era workflows. The small Homebrew package is therefore a fossil from the period when free office suites had to reverse-engineer Microsoft binary formats.

### 使われ方

Developers used wv2 through its library and config helper rather than as a standalone document converter. Its value was in giving applications a way to parse old Word binary files for import or conversion before OOXML and newer document libraries became the dominant path.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

wv2 matters because it sits at the intersection of early open-source office suites, KDE/KOffice import filters, and the painful packaging of proprietary binary office formats. It is a small package, but it explains why old dependency graphs still contain libgsf-era Word import code.

### タイムライン

- 2000-08-28: SourceForge records the wvWare project registration.
- 2000: Dom Lachowicz took over wv maintenance from original author Caolan McNamara in late August 2000.
- 2002: Debian packaging discussion described wv2 0.0.9 as an eventual replacement for wv.
- 2005: wv 1.2.0 switched to libgsf, libxml2, and glib, reflecting GNOME-office-era library consolidation.

### Related projects

- wv2 is related to wv/wvWare, AbiWord, KWord/KOffice, libgsf, and the broader family of document import libraries for legacy Microsoft Office formats.

### ソース

- <https://freshports.org/textproc/wv2/>
- <https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.devel/c/2W3GIXAUG-I>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/>
- <https://wvware.sourceforge.net/>


## セキュリティノート

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- **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 - wv2: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wv/wv2/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - wv2: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/wv2/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/wv2.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/wv2.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