Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install lv

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install lv

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/lv/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install lv

Debian stable package indexes · lv · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install lv

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · lv · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#lv

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Powerful multi-lingual file viewer/grep

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

lgrep
lv

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

lv is a multilingual file viewer and grep-like tool originally by NARITA Tomio. It looks like a less-style pager but adds character-set conversion, multilingual regular expressions, Unicode handling, and the `lgrep` mode.

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README in the Debian source records copyright years beginning in 1996 and points to NARITA Tomio's original web documentation. The bundled man page describes lv as a completely original implementation, not code derived from less, grep, or other programs.

Release notes show active upstream work through the early 2000s, including Debian-related patches and portability fixes. Version 4.51 was released in January 2004, while later distribution maintenance continued through Debian packaging updates.

Adoptionsgeschichte

lv's adoption is mostly distribution-driven rather than community-site driven. It survives in Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Fedora-family packaging, and other Unix package collections because it solves a durable terminal problem: viewing and searching multilingual text on older and mixed-encoding systems.

The Debian changelog shows ongoing packaging maintenance into 2026, including modern compiler compatibility work, even though the upstream feature history is much older.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `lv` as a terminal pager and `lgrep` as the grep mode. The man page documents options for input, keyboard, output, pathname, and fallback coding systems, with examples for ISO-8859, Shift-JIS, EUC, Big5, HZ, UTF-7, and UTF-8.

The official man page documents a `.lv` configuration file in the user's home directory, an `_lv` file for MSDOS, and the `LV` environment variable. Command-line options are read last, so they override file and environment settings.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

lv is the kind of old terminal utility package that remains valuable precisely because modern stacks still encounter old encodings. For package maintainers it is a small C program with a long tail: patches, portability fixes, and distro maintenance preserve behavior that newer pagers do not always cover.

Zeitleiste

1996: Copyright start year recorded in the upstream README.
2003: Debian-related patches incorporated in upstream 4.50 release notes.
2004: lv 4.51 release notes published.
2026: Debian changelog records a compiler-compatibility non-maintainer upload.

Related projects

less is the familiar pager interface that lv intentionally resembles.
nkf and tcs are comparable coding-system translation tools mentioned by the lv man page.
grep is the model for the `lgrep` mode.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.lv

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`lgrep`	cli	globales Executable
`lv`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-08

Manager-Version4.51-10.1

Manager aktualisiert2026-04-10

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lvnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:lv
Version	4.51-10.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lv
Homepage	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv
Repository	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv#readme
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lv/-/archive/debian/4.51-10.1/lv-debian-4.51-10.1.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-04-10T09:50:56Z
Pulse	updated
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	ncurses
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	lv
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

lv 4.51-10

Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

sudo apt install lv

Section: text
Architecture: amd64
2 Abhängigkeiten
3 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Lv

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: lv from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

lv

nix profile install nixpkgs#lv

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Lv

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

Ubuntu apt95%

lv 4.51-9

Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

sudo apt install lv

Section: universe/text
Architecture: amd64
2 Abhängigkeiten
3 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Lv

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: lv from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

dnf95%

lv 4.51-57.fc44

A Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~nrt/lv/

sudo dnf install lv

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: lv
3 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Lv

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lv from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

MacPorts95%

lv

sudo port install lv

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Lv

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/lv/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/lv.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

lv mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix installieren