macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install w3mlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install w3mMacPorts ports tree · www/w3m/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
w3m mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren
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Installation
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Linux
Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add w3mAlpine Linux edge package indexes · w3m · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install w3mDebian stable package indexes · w3m · Quelle: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install w3mFedora Rawhide package metadata · w3m · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#w3mnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/w3/w3m/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S w3mArch Linux sync databases · w3m · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install w3mopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · w3m · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Pager/text based browser
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- w3m
- w3mman
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
w3m is a classic text-mode web browser and pager. It is remembered not just as another terminal browser, but as a fast pager-derived browser that could render tables, frames, forms, cookies, authentication, and local or remote HTML in a terminal.
Projektgeschichte
Akinori Ito's own history traces w3m back to an earlier pager called fm, written before 1991 for inspecting very long debug-output lines without wrapping. After Ito learned HTML and HTTP, he modified fm into a simple web browser; the first version of w3m was released at the beginning of 1995.
The name comes from the Japanese phrase 'WWW wo miru', meaning roughly 'see the WWW', inheriting the naming pattern from fm, or 'File wo miru'. The project was originally motivated by the desire to glance quickly at web pages without starting a heavyweight graphical browser, while still keeping the pager behavior that made fm useful.
w3m's major late-1990s transition came when Ito returned to the project in 1998 and implemented a table renderer and forms. The history page describes this as w3m being reborn as a practical web browser, because table-heavy pages had become common and incomplete table rendering made many pages unusable in text mode.
Adoptionsgeschichte
The official SourceForge project was registered in November 2001, and the project page summarizes w3m as both a pager and text-based browser. Its FAQ also documents portability across Unix variants, OS/2, and Windows via Cygwin in the early era, reflecting the tool's spread among terminal-heavy users and ports collections.
Wie es verwendet wird
w3m is used as a terminal browser for local files and web pages, as a pager for HTML or text passed as files or standard input, and as a scriptable formatter that can turn HTML into readable terminal output. Its FAQ notes that invoking w3m without arguments exits because it behaves as a pager; normal inputs are a filename, URL, pipe, bookmark view, visual startup, or home URL.
Configuration is part of its Unix culture: the FAQ names `~/.w3m/config` as the configuration file, and w3m users commonly tune key bindings, color, proxies, external viewers, and editor integration for text-only workflows.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
w3m matters because it occupies the intersection of pager, browser, and HTML formatter. Compared with Lynx, its project history emphasized table rendering, frame handling by conversion to tables, standard-input use, small size, and fast startup. That made it a favorite tool for reading documentation, testing HTML, browsing from remote shells, and automating text rendering of web content.
Zeitleiste
- Before 1991: Ito wrote the fm pager for inspecting long debug-output lines.
- Beginning of 1995: The first version of w3m was released.
- 1998: Ito resumed development and implemented table rendering and forms.
- 1999: The English history page was published, explaining w3m's origin and design tradeoffs.
- 2001: The w3m SourceForge project was registered.
- 2020s: Maintenance continues from the source repository referenced by current curation.
Related projects
- w3m is historically related to fm, its pager ancestor, and often compared with Lynx, the older text-mode browser. It also depends historically on Boehm GC, which Ito credited as important for implementing tables and forms.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
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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.
- Installiert mit 3 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
- Build-Metadaten listen 2 Build-Abhängigkeiten.
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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
~/.w3m/config~/.w3m/keymap
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
w3m | cli | globales Executable | |
w3mman | 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 generiert2026-07-10
Manager-Version0.5.6
Manager aktualisiert2026-06-22
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://w3m.sourceforge.net/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:w3m |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.5.6 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/w3m |
| Homepage | https://w3m.sourceforge.net/ |
| Repository | https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://w3m.sourceforge.net/ |
| Lizenz | w3m |
| Quellarchiv | https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/archive/v0.5.6.tar.gz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-06-22T14:06:37-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Abhängigkeiten | bdw-gc, gettext, openssl@3 |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | gettext, pkgconf |
| 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 | w3m |
| 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 |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
Debian apt95%
w3m 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
sudo apt install w3m- Section: web
- Architecture: amd64
- 6 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- 19 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
Debian apt95%
w3m-img 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
inline image extension support utilities for w3m
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
sudo apt install w3m-img- Section: web
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: w3m
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
Nix95%
w3m
nix profile install nixpkgs#w3m- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
Ubuntu apt95%
w3m 0.5.3+git20230121-2ubuntu5
WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
sudo apt install w3m- Section: text
- Architecture: amd64
- 6 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- 19 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
Ubuntu apt95%
w3m-img 0.5.3+git20230121-2ubuntu5
inline image extension support utilities for w3m
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
sudo apt install w3m-img- Section: universe/text
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: w3m
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
apk95%
w3m 0.5.6-r0
text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager
sudo apk add w3m- License: MIT
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
apk95%
w3m-doc 0.5.6-r0
text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (documentation)
sudo apk add w3m-doc- License: MIT
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
apk95%
w3m-image 0.5.6-r0
text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (inline image support)
sudo apk add w3m-image- License: MIT
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
apk95%
w3m-perl 0.5.6-r0
text-based web & gopher browser, as well as pager (perl helper scripts)
sudo apk add w3m-perl- License: MIT
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
dnf95%
w3m 0.5.3-67.git20230121.fc44
Pager with Web browsing abilities
sudo dnf install w3m- License: MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2015
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 12 Abhängigkeiten
- 4 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
dnf95%
w3m-img 0.5.3-67.git20230121.fc44
Helper program to display the inline images for w3m
sudo dnf install w3m-img- License: MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2015
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 9 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
pacman95%
w3m 0.5.6-1
Text-based Web browser as well as pager
sudo pacman -S w3m- License: LicenseRef-w3m
- Architecture: x86_64
- 7 Abhängigkeiten
- 2 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
zypper95%
w3m 0.5.6-1.2
A text-based WWW browser
sudo zypper install w3m- License: ISC
- Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 9 Abhängigkeiten
- 3 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
zypper95%
w3m-inline-image 0.5.6-1.2
An inline image extension for w3m
sudo zypper install w3m-inline-image- License: ISC
- Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: w3m
- 5 Abhängigkeiten
- 2 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
MacPorts95%
w3m
sudo port install w3m- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: W3m
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