# Install gdbgui with Homebrew, Nix

Modern, browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Version 0.15.3.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gdbgui.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gdbgui
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gdbgui
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gdbgui
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gdbgui
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.15.3.0
- **Source summary:** Modern, browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger)
- **Homepage:** <https://www.gdbgui.com/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gdbgui (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.15.3.0
## Project history and usage

gdbgui is a browser-based frontend to GDB that starts from a terminal command and opens a web interface for breakpoints, stack traces, source viewing, and debugger control.

### Project history

The official site describes gdbgui as a browser-based frontend to the GNU Debugger for C, C++, Go, and Rust. It identifies Chad Smith as creator and maintainer and lists GitHub and PyPI as distribution channels.

The GitHub README points to the same documentation and source repository, making the project a Python-distributed CLI/server around a browser UI rather than a traditional desktop IDE.

### Adoption history

The project site says gdbgui is used by thousands of developers, including engineers at Google and college computer science course instructors, and notes appearances in Rust source and C++ Weekly.

Its adoption niche is developers who want GDB's debugger engine without living entirely inside the GDB command prompt or a full IDE.

### How it is used

Users run gdbgui from the terminal to start the server; the documentation says a browser tab opens automatically and can load a binary, set breakpoints, run, step, and inspect program state.

Because gdbgui is a server, the official guides document remote debugging by running gdbgui on a remote machine and connecting from a local browser, along with compatibility with gdbserver.

### Why package nerds care

gdbgui is interesting as a package because it packages a debugger frontend as a command-line-launched web app: it depends on the system debugger culture of GDB while delivering a browser UI through Python packaging and Homebrew-style executable installation.

It is also a good example of a package that turns an old CLI tool into a local web workflow without replacing the underlying debugger.

### Timeline

- 2020: Official GitHub releases show the 0.14.x series.
- 2021: Official GitHub releases show the 0.15.0 series.
- 2025: Official GitHub releases show version 0.15.3.0.

### Related projects

- gdbgui is directly related to GDB and gdbserver.
- It overlaps conceptually with debugger frontends and IDE debuggers, while remaining a standalone browser-based frontend.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui>
- <https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui/releases>
- <https://www.gdbgui.com/>
- <https://www.gdbgui.com/guides>


## Security Notes

escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - gdbgui: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gd/gdbgui/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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