# icon mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für icon in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:icon ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install icon ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install icon ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: lang/icon/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install icon-ipl ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: icon-ipl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install icon ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:icon - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 9.5.25a - **Quellzusammenfassung:** General-purpose programming language - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain - **Quellarchiv:** - **Generiert:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00 ## Executables - icon (cli) - icont (cli) - iconx (cli) - icon (Alias) - icont (Alias) - iconx (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-09 - Manager-Version: 9.5.25a - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/gtownsend/icon - Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung Icon is a high-level general-purpose programming language from the University of Arizona tradition, known for string scanning, goal-directed evaluation, generators, backtracking, automatic storage management, and a compact command-line implementation. ### Projektgeschichte Icon was first released in 1979 as a successor to SNOBOL4. The Arizona Icon site places it in a lineage of high-level languages for strings and structures: SNOBOL at Bell Telephone Laboratories, SNOBOL4, then later University of Arizona languages supported in part by the National Science Foundation. The Icon Project was supported by the University of Arizona Department of Computer Science. Its implementations were built by faculty, staff, students, and outside volunteers, with Gregg Townsend maintaining the Unix implementation and website after the language entered maintenance mode. The language continued to evolve for roughly two decades after its first release. The official site says formal development has been frozen, but the Unix implementation remains in use and is maintained when necessary. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Icon never became a mainstream systems language, but it earned a lasting niche among language designers, text-processing users, and people studying generators, coroutines, and goal-directed evaluation. The official FAQ describes it as useful for software tools, text processing, research, experiments, one-shot programs, and complex applications. Its documentation culture is unusually rich for an older language package: public-domain books, implementation notes, release documentation, a program library, newsletters, and web-hosted historical material remain available through the Arizona site. Package-manager adoption keeps Icon buildable from a shell without requiring users to fetch archived university distribution files manually. Homebrew builds the Unix implementation and installs the icon, icont, and iconx commands. ### Wie es verwendet wird The Homebrew package exposes the command-line pieces of the Unix implementation: icon, icont, and iconx. Users write Icon programs with external editors and run them from a command shell rather than through an IDE. The official FAQ frames the language around high-level string and data-structure work, programmer productivity, sets, tables, lists, records, arbitrary-precision integers, co-expressions, graphics facilities, and a program library with contributed examples. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren Icon is package-nerd catnip because it is both an installable Unix command and a preserved programming-language artifact. A tiny formula gives access to a language with a direct lineage from SNOBOL and a documented influence on later generator and coroutine thinking. It is also a reminder that package repositories are cultural archives. Installing brew install icon is not only installing a compiler/interpreter; it is keeping an older research language executable on newer Unix-like systems. ### Zeitleiste - Early 1960s: SNOBOL is developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories. - 1979: Icon is first released as a modern successor to SNOBOL4. - 1986: The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language is published. - 1993: Ralph and Madge Griswold publish a History of the Icon Programming Language for HOPL-II. - 1996: The Icon Programming Language, third edition, is published. - 1998: Graphics Programming in Icon is published. - 2022: The official FAQ records Icon as maintained in maintenance mode. ### Related projects - Related projects and predecessors include SNOBOL, SNOBOL4, SL5, the Icon Program Library, Jcon, the native Windows implementation, and Unicon, an object-oriented language based on Icon. ### Quellen - Homebrew formula metadata documents the packaged Unix commands and source archive used for installation. - The Icon FAQ documents the language's features, use cases, project organization, lineage, maintenance mode, and relationship to Unicon. - The University of Arizona Icon site provides the language origin, release year, maintenance status, documentation set, and implementation notes. ## Sicherheitshinweise generalized runtime or code generation signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel - generalized runtime or code generation signal ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** icon - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - icon-ipl - 9.5.24b-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: icon-ipl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Libraries for Icon, a high-level programming language | http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ - Debian apt - icont - 9.5.24b-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: icont from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Interpreter for Icon, a high-level programming language | http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ - Debian apt - iconx - 9.5.24b-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: iconx from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Executor for Icon, a high-level programming language | http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ - Ubuntu apt - icon-ipl - 9.4.3-7ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: icon-ipl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Libraries for Icon, a high-level programming language - Ubuntu apt - icont - 9.4.3-7ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: icont from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Interpreter for Icon, a high-level programming language - Ubuntu apt - iconx - 9.4.3-7ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: iconx from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Executor for Icon, a high-level programming language - dnf - icon - 9.5.25a-1.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Icon programming language | https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ - dnf - icon-utils - 9.5.25a-1.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icon-utils from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Icon utility programs | https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ - MacPorts - icon: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: lang/icon/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [noweb](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/noweb/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [algol68g](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/algol68g/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [ats2-postiats](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ats2-postiats/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [ballerina](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ballerina/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [chapel](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/chapel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [coconut](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/coconut/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [coffeescript](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/coffeescript/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [crystal](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/crystal/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [fennel](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/fennel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, language-runtime, programming-language. - [php](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/php/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, general, general-purpose, language, language-runtime. - [ocaml](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ocaml/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, compiler, general, language, language-runtime. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/icon.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/icon.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph