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Install tokyo-dystopia with Homebrew
Lightweight full-text search system. Version 0.9.15 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Additional install commands
overview
Package summary
Lightweight full-text search system
Project links
Commands and aliases
- dystmgr
- dysttest
- lapumgr
- laputest
- tcqmgr
- tcqtest
- tcwmgr
- tcwtest
history
Project history and usage
Tokyo Dystopia is FAL Labs' lightweight full-text search system, documented as a C99/POSIX, LGPL-licensed package for searching large sets of records by specified patterns. It complements Tokyo Cabinet by adding full-text indexing and search-oriented APIs rather than general key/value storage.
Project history
The official page carries a 2007-2010 FAL Labs copyright notice and was last updated on 2010-08-05. It describes Tokyo Dystopia as written and maintained by FAL Labs, and the specification says installation requires the latest Tokyo Cabinet first, making Dystopia part of the same FAL Labs database-tool family.
Adoption history
The documented distribution model mirrors Tokyo Cabinet: upstream source packages, with binary packages handled by distributors. In Homebrew and similar package-manager contexts, that made Tokyo Dystopia a niche but useful package for developers who wanted an embeddable full-text search library and CLI tools without deploying a larger search server.
How it is used
The official specification documents `./configure`, `make`, `make check`, and `make install`, producing headers, `libtokyodystopia`, pkg-config metadata, command-line tools such as `dystmgr`, `tcqmgr`, `tcwmgr`, and `lapumgr`, and CGI helpers. Its core model stores indexed text records and supports phrase, prefix, suffix, token, and character N-gram search, with Unicode-oriented multilingual support.
Why package nerds care
Tokyo Dystopia is significant in the package-nerd niche because it packages a late-2000s search engine as a small Unix library/toolkit: it depends on Tokyo Cabinet, installs many focused binaries, and exposes enough low-level pieces for scripting, experiments, and embedded search features.
Timeline
- 2007: Official copyright range begins for Tokyo Dystopia.
- 2010: Official page last updated and latest source package listed as 0.9.15.
- Current: Homebrew still identifies it as a lightweight full-text search system.
Related projects
- Tokyo Dystopia is directly related to Tokyo Cabinet, which the official installation instructions require. It belongs to the FAL Labs Tokyo family alongside Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant.
Sources
- https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia
- https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/spex.html
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager
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
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
dystmgr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dysttest | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lapumgr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
laputest | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tcqmgr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tcqtest | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tcwmgr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tcwtest | executable | indexed executable | Discovered 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 version0.9.15
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:tokyo-dystopia |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.15 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation