# 使用 Homebrew 安装 gtmess

查看 gtmess 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:gtmess
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gtmess
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:gtmess
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 0.97
- **来源摘要:** Console MSN messenger client
- **主页:** <https://gtmess.sourceforge.net/>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/geotz/gtmess>
- **最后更新:** 2026-06-22T14:03:40-07:00
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- gtmess (别名)
- gtmess-notify (别名)
- gtmess_w (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 0.97
## 项目历史与用法

gtmess is a console MSN Messenger client for Linux and other POSIX-like Unix systems. It is a small legacy instant-messaging package whose historical value is tied to the MSN Messenger protocol era rather than to a broad active ecosystem.

### 项目历史

The official homepage credits George M. Tzoumas for 2002-2011 and describes gtmess as a console MSN Messenger client for Linux and other Unix systems including BSD, macOS, Solaris, and IRIX. The project ChangeLog records 0.8.0 as the first public release on 16 October 2003.

The ChangeLog shows the client following MSN protocol changes across MSNP8, MSNP9, and MSNP12 while adding curses UI behavior, Unicode support, logging, contact-list handling, sound and notification support, and macOS/Growl integration. The 0.97 release in December 2011 is described by the homepage as an official SourceForge release, and the 2014 news item says source code with history was uploaded to GitHub while official releases remained on SourceForge.

### 采用历史

Upstream evidence supports a niche adoption story: the project maintained a SourceForge page, release tarballs, bundled documentation, and a GitHub repository, but the input package facts show only a Homebrew package-manager mapping among the sampled managers. Its use case depended on MSN Messenger service compatibility, which the homepage itself treats as uncertain by 2013.

### 使用方式

Users ran gtmess in a terminal, opened the F9 menu, connected with MSN credentials, selected contacts, and opened chat windows from the keyboard. The README documents a curses-style workflow with contact-list, chat-window, transfer-window, notification, editbox, and menu shortcuts.

The package also installed helper programs such as gtmess-notify and gtmess_w for notification popups and terminal launching.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

gtmess is useful in package history as a fossil of protocol-specific console IM clients. It shows how early Unix users packaged proprietary-service clients around curses, pthreads, OpenSSL/certificate behavior, terminal encodings, notification helpers, and per-user logs before web and mobile clients displaced much of that workflow.

For modern package indexes, its significance is mostly archival: a buildable C/POSIX terminal client for a discontinued messaging ecosystem, with official source history preserved on GitHub and official release history on SourceForge.

### 时间线

- 2002-2011: Official homepage credits project copyright to George M. Tzoumas.
- 2003-10-16: Version 0.8.0 is marked as the first public release in the ChangeLog.
- 2004-12-19: Version 0.9 adds MSNP9 support and removes MSNP7 support.
- 2006-11-07: Version 0.92 adds transparent background support, improved launcher behavior, multiline input, keep-alive, and contact-list cleanup.
- 2010-01: Version 0.96 beta work includes MSNP12 support.
- 2011-12-21: Version 0.97 is released on SourceForge.
- 2014-10-03: Official homepage announces source code with history uploaded to GitHub.

### Related projects

- MSN Messenger and the MSNP protocol family define the service and protocol target.
- curses, pthreads, libnotify, Growl, OpenSSL/certificate handling, and POSIX Unix portability shape the implementation context.
- SourceForge and GitHub are the official release and source-history surfaces described by upstream.

### 来源

- <https://github.com/geotz/gtmess>
- <https://gtmess.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geotz/gtmess/master/ChangeLog>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geotz/gtmess/master/NEWS>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geotz/gtmess/master/README>


## 安全说明

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger 风险:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

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


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph