# ipbt mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ipbt in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ipbt
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ipbt
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install ipbt
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ipbt
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ip/ipbt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ipbt
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ipbt>
- **Version:** 20260527
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Program for recording a UNIX terminal session
- **Homepage:** <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/>
- **Repository:** <https://git.tartarus.org/simon/ipbt.git>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/ipbt-20260527.fdcd2b0.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-29T14:57:37Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-26T07:20:29+00:00

## Executables

- ipbt (cli)
- ipbt-dump (cli)
- ipbt (Alias)
- ipbt-dump (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- cmake

## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken

- ncurses

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-26
- Manager-Version: 20260527
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-05-29
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

IPBT is Simon Tatham's high-tech ttyrec player for Unix. It plays terminal-session recordings with random access, solving the old ttyplay problem that forward playback is easy but rewinding terminal output is not.

### Projektgeschichte

The official page explains IPBT as a player for ttyrec recordings, a format commonly used to record Unix terminal sessions and NetHack games. Instead of streaming bytes directly to a terminal, IPBT first analyzes the entire recording through an internal terminal emulator, then stores screen states so playback can move forward, backward, or to arbitrary frames.

IPBT is a derived work of PuTTY because it uses PuTTY's terminal emulator internally. That connection is historically important: Tatham reused his own mature terminal-emulation code to make random-access replay feasible rather than writing a terminal parser from scratch.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

IPBT occupies a small but durable niche among Unix terminal-recording tools. The official page asks for patches and describes the program as working but unpolished, while Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix packaging keep it easy to install for people who handle ttyrec or nh-recorder files.

Its adoption is closely connected to communities that record text-mode sessions, especially roguelike and NetHack playback. The official introduction names NetHack and alt.org as examples of routine ttyrec use.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `ipbt file` on ttyrec, nh-recorder, or raw terminal recordings. After loading, the curses interface supports pause, frame stepping, jumps, speed changes, logarithmic time compression, on-screen status, and text search through recorded frames.

The main cost is up-front analysis time. The manual notes that simpler players can begin immediately, while IPBT trades that startup cost for reverse playback and frame-level navigation.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

IPBT is significant because it is a tiny package with a deep implementation trick: it packages PuTTY's terminal model into a Unix curses replay tool. That makes it more than a wrapper around ttyrec; it is a terminal-state indexer.

For maintainers, it is also a classic Simon Tatham utility: small, MIT-licensed, hosted on chiark and git.tartarus.org, and documented with a precise standalone man page.

### Zeitleiste

- 2000s: ttyrec became a common way to record Unix terminal sessions and NetHack games.
- IPBT project era: Tatham built IPBT around full-file analysis and PuTTY terminal emulation to enable random-access playback.
- 2026-05-27: The official site offered source archive `ipbt-20260527.fdcd2b0.tar.gz` and documented the Git repository.
- Package-manager era: Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix packaged IPBT for repeatable Unix installation.

### Related projects

- Related projects include ttyrec, ttyplay, nh-recorder, PuTTY, ncurses, and NetHack recording sites such as alt.org.
- A third-party GitHub tree by Jonathan Amazon describes patches adding an autoplay mode, showing that IPBT's architecture invited experimentation around startup latency and streaming behavior.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ipbt>
- <https://git.tartarus.org/simon/ipbt.git>
- <https://github.com/jmazon/ipbt>
- <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/>
- <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/ipbt.html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

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

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** ipbt
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - ipbt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ip/ipbt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - ipbt: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/ipbt/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ipbt.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/ipbt.yml)


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