# wordnet mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wordnet
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wordnet
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install wordnet
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install wordnet
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install wordnet
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#wordnet
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install wordnet
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: wordnet from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:wordnet
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wordnet>
- **Version:** 3.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Lexical database for the English language
- **Homepage:** <https://wordnet.princeton.edu/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://wordnet.princeton.edu/documentation>
- **Lizenz:** WordNet
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.bz2>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:06:40-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00

## Executables

- wishwn (cli)
- wn (cli)
- wnb (cli)
- wishwn (Alias)
- wn (Alias)
- wnb (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- tcl-tk@8

## 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: 2026-07-25
- Manager-Version: 3.1
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-22
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

WordNet is Princeton University's English lexical database: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, or synsets, with semantic and lexical relations between them. In package collections it is both data and tooling: the database is the main artifact, while commands such as wn and browser front-ends let users query the lexical graph locally.

### Projektgeschichte

The project began in the mid-1980s under Princeton psychologist George A. Miller, who later remained principal investigator of WordNet. Princeton's own news page records WordNet 3.1 reaching the web interface in June 2011, and the current Princeton site now states that Princeton WordNet is no longer developed while the database and tools remain freely available.

The post-Princeton maintenance story is part of WordNet's modern importance. Princeton points users toward community-led resources such as Open English WordNet and the Global Wordnet Association for ongoing support. Open English WordNet describes itself as a fork of Princeton WordNet developed under an open source methodology, preserving the Princeton lineage while moving maintenance into a public contribution model.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

WordNet became a reference resource for computational linguistics and natural language processing because it exposes word senses and semantic relationships rather than only word forms. Princeton's own description highlights this structure as useful for NLP, and later community work kept compatibility and comparability important by treating Princeton WordNet as the reference base.

The data also became a substrate for other resources. Princeton's news page points to ImageNet as a database of images linked to WordNet synsets, illustrating how the lexical graph escaped its original dictionary-browser niche and became infrastructure for machine learning datasets, annotation projects, and word-sense research.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical package-manager usage is local lookup and batch querying: users install the database and CLI tools, then query synsets, definitions, relations, and morphology through wn or library bindings. In NLP pipelines, WordNet is often used as a stable lexical knowledge base for sense lookup, semantic relation traversal, lemmatization-adjacent workflows, and evaluation datasets.

Because the database is freely available and has a long-standing citation culture, WordNet also appears in reproducible research and educational settings where a fixed English lexical graph is more useful than a live online dictionary.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

WordNet is one of the classic examples of packaging a large curated dataset as a Unix-installable artifact. It matters to package nerds because it is not merely a command-line program; it is a shared lexical corpus, a set of on-disk database files, manpage-documented tools, and a compatibility target for downstream libraries.

The Princeton-to-Open-English-WordNet transition is also a useful maintenance lesson: widely depended-on research data may outlive its original institutional development, so downstream packages preserve old releases while community forks carry the living vocabulary forward.

### Zeitleiste

- Mid-1980s: George A. Miller begins the WordNet project at Princeton.
- June 2011: Princeton announces WordNet 3.1 on the web interface.
- 2019: Open English WordNet is released as an open source fork of Princeton WordNet.
- 2026: Princeton's WordNet site states that Princeton WordNet is no longer developed and directs users to community-led resources.

### Related projects

- Open English WordNet continues the English lexical database as an open source fork of Princeton WordNet.
- The Global Wordnet Association provides a forum for wordnets across languages.
- ImageNet is a notable downstream dataset linked to WordNet synsets.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet>
- <https://wordnet.princeton.edu/>
- <https://wordnet.princeton.edu/news-0>
- <https://wordnet.princeton.edu/people/george-miller>


## 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:** wordnet
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 2
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - dict-wn - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: dict-wn from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language for dict | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - goldendict-wordnet - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: goldendict-wordnet from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language (goldendict) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet-base - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet-base from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language (base data) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet-dev - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language (devel) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet-grind - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet-grind from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | WordNet lexicographer files processor | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet-gui - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet-gui from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language (GUI) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Debian apt - wordnet-sense-index - 1:3.0-39: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wordnet-sense-index from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | electronic lexical database of English language (index) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Nix - wordnet: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wo/wordnet/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - dict-wn - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dict-wn from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language for dict | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - goldendict-wordnet - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: goldendict-wordnet from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language (goldendict) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - wordnet - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wordnet from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - wordnet-base - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wordnet-base from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language (base data) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - wordnet-dev - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wordnet-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language (devel) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - wordnet-grind - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wordnet-grind from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | WordNet lexicographer files processor | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- Ubuntu apt - wordnet-gui - 1:3.0-37: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wordnet-gui from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | electronic lexical database of English language (GUI) | http://wordnet.princeton.edu/


## 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.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [tcl-tk@8](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/tcl-tk-8/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cabocha](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cabocha/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, nlp.
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- [stanford-parser](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/stanford-parser/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, nlp.
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- [cayley](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cayley/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, data, database, language.

## Combined YAML source

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