# Install desed with Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix

Debugger for Sed. Version 1.2.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#desed.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:desed
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install desed
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add desed
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: desed from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install desed
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: desed 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#desed
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:desed
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.2
- **Source summary:** Debugger for Sed
- **Homepage:** <https://soptik.tech/articles/building-desed-the-sed-debugger.html>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- desed (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.2.2
## Project history and usage

desed is a terminal user-interface debugger for sed scripts. It wraps GNU sed's debugging capability with interactive stepping, breakpoints, reverse stepping, hot reload, and state inspection.

### Project history

The maintainer describes desed as a first Rust project built because sed lacked comfortable debugging tooling. The project reached public 1.x releases by 2020 and had a v1.2.2 release in 2024.

### Adoption history

The official README lists several package routes, including Alpine Linux, Arch AUR, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Void Linux, Cargo, source builds, and precompiled GitHub releases. That spread reflects a small but real command-line audience across Unix-like package ecosystems.

### How it is used

Users run desed to step through sed programs, inspect pattern and hold-space state, preview substitutions, place breakpoints, and reload edited scripts while staying in a terminal UI.

### Why package nerds care

desed is notable because it gives a classic Unix stream editor the kind of interactive debugger usually associated with larger programming languages. For package collectors, it is a niche but memorable text-processing tool: small, Rust-based, and aimed at people who write enough sed to need a debugger.

### Timeline

- 2020: v1.2.0 added autoreload and BSD support.
- 2022: v1.2.1 fixed BSD file-watch support on armv7.
- 2024: v1.2.2 was published.

### Related projects

- Related tools include GNU sed itself and sed programs such as sedtris, which the README references as an example of complex sed usage.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed#readme>
- <https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed/releases/tag/v1.2.0>
- <https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed/releases/tag/v1.2.2>


## Security Notes

escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.

- **Geiger risk:** red / medium
- escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - desed: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/de/desed/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - desed - 1.2.2-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: desed from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Demystify and debug your sed scripts, from comfort of your terminal | https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed
- apk - desed-doc - 1.2.2-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: desed-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Demystify and debug your sed scripts, from comfort of your terminal (documentation) | https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed
- dnf - desed - 1.2.2-9.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: desed from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Sed script debugger | https://crates.io/crates/desed


## Combined YAML source

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