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Install gfxutil with Homebrew, MacPorts

Device Properties conversion tool. Version 1.84b via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install gfxutil.

Install commandSecurity notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install gfxutil

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install gfxutil

MacPorts ports tree · sysutils/gfxutil/Portfile · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Device Properties conversion tool

Commands and aliases

  • gfxutil

history

Project history and usage

gfxutil is a small macOS command-line utility for working with Apple EFI Device Properties data, most often encountered in Hackintosh, bootloader, and firmware-adjacent workflows.

Project history

The Acidanthera repository describes gfxutil as a tool by mcmatrix for Device Properties commonly found in Apple Mac firmwares, with usage examples and changelogs linked to the older netkas.org community forum. The GitHub repository was opened in 2018 as an Acidanthera-hosted source tree, but the README points to an earlier community lineage outside GitHub.

Adoption history

gfxutil became useful in a narrow ecosystem: people editing or translating macOS device-property data for bootloaders and EFI configuration. Its Homebrew and MacPorts packaging made a formerly forum-distributed utility easier to install on developer and hobbyist Macs.

How it is used

Practitioners use gfxutil to inspect and convert device paths and property blobs when preparing macOS hardware configuration data, especially when matching PCI device paths to injected properties.

Why package nerds care

The package is significant mainly because it preserves a specialized Apple-firmware utility in a reproducible source repository and package-manager form, rather than leaving it only as a forum attachment or local build.

Timeline

  • 2007: The bundled manual page date records an early Darwin-era documentation stub.
  • 2018: The Acidanthera GitHub repository was created and published release 1.76b.
  • 2024: Release 1.84b was published from the Acidanthera repository.

Related projects

  • The README builds against Acidanthera's audk edk2 tree, placing gfxutil near the OpenCore and Apple-firmware tooling ecosystem.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
gfxutilexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.84b
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:gfxutil
Version1.84b
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil
Repositoryhttps://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

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MacPorts95%

gfxutil

sudo port install gfxutil
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gfxutil
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/gfxutil/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

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source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
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