# 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

```sh
sudo av install brew:gfxutil
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gfxutil
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gfxutil
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/gfxutil/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gfxutil
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.84b
- **Source summary:** Device Properties conversion tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gfxutil (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.84b
## 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.

### Sources

- <http://forum.netkas.org/index.php?topic=64.0>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/acidanthera/gfxutil/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gfxutil>
- <https://github.com/acidanthera/gfxutil>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidanthera/gfxutil/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - gfxutil: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/gfxutil/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/gfxutil.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gfxutil.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