macOS
brew install notcurseslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install notcursesMacPorts ports tree · devel/notcurses/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für notcurses in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install notcurseslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install notcursesMacPorts ports tree · devel/notcurses/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apk add notcursesAlpine Linux edge package indexes · notcurses · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo dnf install notcursesFedora Rawhide package metadata · notcurses · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#notcursesnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/no/notcurses/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo pacman -S notcursesArch Linux sync databases · notcurses · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
sudo apt install libnotcurses++-devUbuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · libnotcurses++-dev · Quelle: archive.ubuntu.com
sudo zypper install libnotcurses++3openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libnotcurses++3 · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Blingful character graphics/TUI library
Verlauf
Notcurses is Nick Black's modern terminal graphics and TUI library. It deliberately is not a source-compatible ncurses replacement; it targets Unicode, 24-bit color, multimedia, terminal bitmap graphics, keyboard protocols, and high-performance full-screen terminal applications.
The public tag history begins with v0.0.9 on 2019-11-26 and moves quickly through early 0.x releases. The README frames the project as an answer to the limits of the X/Open Curses model: Notcurses assumes modern terminal capabilities and degrades downward, rather than starting from the least capable terminal and forcing applications to climb upward manually.
By the 3.x line, Notcurses had accumulated a large surface area: C and C++ APIs, Python bindings, documentation, man pages, demos, terminal capability diagnostics, and bundled demonstration tools. The repository release history shows v3.0.17 on 2025-10-28, while the Homebrew formula checked here packaged 3.0.17.
Notcurses is adopted mostly by terminal-interface enthusiasts, systems programmers, and distribution/package maintainers rather than by mainstream app developers. Its README advertises packaging status across repositories via Repology badges and lists wrappers for Ada, C++, Dart, Julia, Nim, Python, Rust, Zig, and Raku, which is a stronger ecosystem signal than raw Homebrew usage. Homebrew reported 882 installs over the 365-day window in the formula JSON.
Practical usage falls into two camps: developers link against libnotcurses to build vivid TUIs, and users install the package for its bundled tools. The installed tools include ncls for multimedia-aware directory listings, ncplayer for rendering visual media, notcurses-demo for capability demos, notcurses-info for terminal diagnostics, notcurses-input for decoding keypresses, nctetris, ncneofetch, and tfman.
Package maintainers care about its optional dependency shape. The README documents CMake, C17, terminfo from ncurses, libunistring, optional FFmpeg/OpenImageIO/mouse/QR dependencies, generated man pages, and the ability to build without multimedia support to reduce dependency weight.
Notcurses is important as a stress test for terminal capability packaging. It exercises terminfo correctness, Unicode locale setup, graphics protocols such as Sixel and Kitty, and multimedia dependency choices in a way most small TUI libraries do not.
Sicherheitslage
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
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Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
ncls | cli | globales Executable | |
ncneofetch | cli | globales Executable | |
ncplayer | cli | globales Executable | |
nctetris | cli | globales Executable | |
notcurses-demo | cli | globales Executable | |
notcurses-info | cli | globales Executable | |
notcurses-input | cli | globales Executable | |
tfman | cli | globales Executable |
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.
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:notcurses |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.17 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/notcurses |
| Homepage | https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses |
| Repository | https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses#readme |
| Lizenz | Apache-2.0 |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.17.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | ffmpeg, libdeflate, libunistring, ncurses |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | cmake, doctest, pandoc, pkgconf |
| 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
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | notcurses |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
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notcurses
nix profile install nixpkgs#notcurseslibnotcurses++-dev 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (C++ development)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses++-devlibnotcurses++3 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (C++)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses++3libnotcurses-core-dev 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (core development)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses-core-devlibnotcurses-core3 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (core)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses-core3libnotcurses-dev 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (development)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses-devlibnotcurses3 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install libnotcurses3notcurses-bin 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library demos
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install notcurses-binnotcurses-data 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Multimedia used by notcurses-bin
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install notcurses-datapython3-notcurses 3.0.7+dfsg.1-1ubuntu5
Character graphics and TUI library (Python)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apt install python3-notcursesncls 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add nclsncneofetch 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add ncneofetchnotcurses 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add notcursesnotcurses-dbg 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library (debug symbols)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add notcurses-dbgnotcurses-demo 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add notcurses-demonotcurses-dev 3.0.17-r0
blingful character graphics and TUI library (development files)
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
sudo apk add notcurses-devQuellspur
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