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Installer freetype avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de freetype pour les workflows d'agents IA.

Commande d'installationNotes de sécurité

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install freetype

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install freetype

MacPorts ports tree · print/freetype/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add freetype

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · freetype · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install freetype

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · freetype · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#freetype

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fr/freetype/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install freetype2-demos

Debian stable package indexes · freetype2-demos · Source: deb.debian.org

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Software library to render fonts

Commandes et alias

  • freetype-config

historique

Historique du projet et usages

FreeType is a portable C library for rendering fonts, especially vector and bitmap font formats. It is a foundational graphics dependency: users rarely invoke it directly, but desktop stacks, browsers, games, document renderers, and toolkits depend on the library to turn fonts into glyph images.

Historique du projet

The official history says David Turner created FreeType in 1996 to render TrueType fonts, including a TrueType bytecode interpreter. Robert Wilhelm ported it to C in 1997, Werner Lemberg joined the team, and the Pascal version ended development in 2000.

FreeType 2.0 was released in 2000 after beta releases as a complete modular rewrite. It added support for multiple font formats, including PostScript fonts, improved gray-level rendering, and glyph image and metrics caching.

The project later narrowed its scope around 2004 to creating rasterized glyph images, leaving text shaping and layout to higher-level libraries such as ICU and HarfBuzz. In 2009 the repository moved from CVS to git, and Werner Lemberg became the sole maintainer with outside contributions.

Historique d'adoption

FreeType 1 influenced OS/2 and TeX tooling through FreeType/2 and ttf2pk, according to the official history. FreeType 2's narrower rendering focus made it a durable low-level dependency rather than a complete text-layout engine.

Its adoption is visible through its role as a tiny, efficient, portable renderer used by other software rather than as an end-user program. The README emphasizes portability, customization, and high-quality output across most vector and bitmap font formats.

Modes d'utilisation

Developers use FreeType through its C API to load font faces, inspect glyph metrics, rasterize glyph images, and integrate font rendering into larger graphics or document pipelines. The official documentation includes glyph conventions, a tutorial, API reference, design notes, and hinting documentation.

Packaged FreeType usually exposes headers, libraries, freetype-config for legacy build integration, and documentation. It does not have a normal user config file or credential store.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

FreeType is one of the archetypal invisible dependencies; upgrading it can affect font rendering across a whole system. Package maintainers care about ABI stability, optional rendering features, patent-era historical choices around hinting, and coordination with HarfBuzz and graphics stacks.

Its history also explains an important Unix packaging boundary: FreeType renders glyphs, while shaping and layout live elsewhere. That division is why FreeType and HarfBuzz so often travel together in dependency graphs.

Chronologie

  • 1996: David Turner created FreeType to render TrueType fonts.
  • 1997: Robert Wilhelm ported FreeType to C and Werner Lemberg joined the team.
  • 2000: FreeType 2.0 released as a modular rewrite; Pascal version development stopped.
  • 2004: Project scope narrowed to rasterized glyph images, leaving shaping and layout to libraries above FreeType.
  • 2009: Source repository migrated from CVS to git; Werner Lemberg became the only maintainer.
  • 2026: FreeType 2.14.3 README identifies the current project as a small, efficient, customizable, portable C font rendering library.

Related projects

  • HarfBuzz is the shaping library explicitly referenced by the official history as a better layer above FreeType for text shaping.
  • ICU is also named by the official history as a higher-level library for text layout concerns.
  • ttf2pk and FreeType/2 are historical FreeType 1 related projects highlighted by the official history.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:library-like

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
  • S’installe avec 1 dépendances d’exécution.
  • Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

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exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
freetype-configcliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

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page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire2.14.3
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://www.freetype.org/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.freetype.org/confiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:freetype
Version2.14.3
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/freetype
Page d'accueilhttps://www.freetype.org/
Dépôthttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype
Docs amonthttps://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/documentation.html
LicenceFTL
Archive sourcehttps://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freetype/freetype2/2.14.3/freetype-2.14.3.tar.xz
Dépendanceslibpng
Dépendances de compilationpkgconf
Bibliothèques fournies par macOSbzip2
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namefreetype
Aliases
  • freetype2
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Debian apt95%

freetype2-demos 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1

FreeType 2 demonstration programs

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install freetype2-demos
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 4 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: freetype2-demos from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

freetype2-doc 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1

FreeType 2 font engine, development documentation

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install freetype2-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 2 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: freetype2-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfreetype-dev 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1

FreeType 2 font engine, development files

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install libfreetype-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 8 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • 1 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfreetype-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1

FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install libfreetype6
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 5 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libfreetype6 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

freetype

nix profile install nixpkgs#freetype
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fr/freetype/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

freetype2-demos 2.13.2+dfsg-1build3

FreeType 2 demonstration programs

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install freetype2-demos
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 4 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: freetype2-demos from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

freetype2-doc 2.13.2+dfsg-1build3

FreeType 2 font engine, development documentation

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install freetype2-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 2 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: freetype2-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfreetype-dev 2.13.2+dfsg-1build3

FreeType 2 font engine, development files

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install libfreetype-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 8 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • 1 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfreetype-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libfreetype6 2.13.2+dfsg-1build3

FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

https://freetype.org

sudo apt install libfreetype6
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 5 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libfreetype6 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

freetype 2.14.3-r0

TrueType font rendering library

https://www.freetype.org/

sudo apk add freetype
  • License: FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: freetype from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

freetype-demos 2.14.3-r0

A collection of FreeType demos

https://www.freetype.org/

sudo apk add freetype-demos
  • License: FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: freetype-demos from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

freetype-dev 2.14.3-r0

TrueType font rendering library (development files)

https://www.freetype.org/

sudo apk add freetype-dev
  • License: FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: freetype-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

freetype-doc 2.14.3-r0

TrueType font rendering library (documentation)

https://www.freetype.org/

sudo apk add freetype-doc
  • License: FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: freetype-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

freetype-static 2.14.3-r0

TrueType font rendering library (static library)

https://www.freetype.org/

sudo apk add freetype-static
  • License: FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 1 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: freetype-static from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

freetype 2.14.3-1.fc45

A free and portable font rendering engine

http://www.freetype.org

sudo dnf install freetype
  • License: (FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND MIT-Modern-Variant AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Zlib
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 8 Dépendances
  • 4 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: freetype from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

freetype-demos 2.14.3-1.fc45

A collection of FreeType demos

http://www.freetype.org

sudo dnf install freetype-demos
  • License: (FTL OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND MIT-Modern-Variant AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Zlib
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: freetype
  • 7 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Freetype
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: freetype-demos from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

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