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Install djview4 with Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, MacPorts, pacman, winget

Viewer for the DjVu image format. Version 4.12.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.

Install commandSecurity notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install djview4

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install djview

MacPorts ports tree · aqua/djview/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install djview4

Debian stable package indexes · djview4 · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install djview4

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · djview4 · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#djview4

nixpkgs package indexes · djview4 · source: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S djview

Arch Linux sync databases · djview · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id DjVuLibre.DjView -e

Windows Package Manager source index · DjVuLibre.DjView · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Viewer for the DjVu image format

Commands and aliases

  • djview

history

Project history and usage

DjView4 is the portable Qt4 DjVu viewer and browser-plugin component associated with DjVuLibre. It opens DjVu documents as a desktop viewer while supporting document navigation, zooming, thumbnails, outlines, hidden-text search, printing, and command-line URL/options handling.

Project history

The DjVuLibre site says DjVu began at AT&T Labs-Research in 1996 and that DjVuLibre came from a cleaned-up GPL code base after LizardTech acquired the technology and released reference-library code. DjView4 appears in that lineage as a newer portable viewer distributed separately from the main DjVuLibre package.

The official DjView4 page describes it as a new portable DjVu viewer and browser plugin, entirely based on the public DjVuLibre API and written in portable Qt4 for Qt/X11, Qt/Mac, and Qt/Windows. The page lists version 4.12 with a 2020-11-20 release date.

Adoption history

DjVuLibre's site presents DjVu as a web-centric document and image distribution format used by academic, commercial, governmental, and non-commercial sites, and describes DjVuLibre as the GPL implementation containing viewers, plugins, decoders, encoders, and utilities. DjView4's adoption follows that document-viewing niche: it is useful when archives, scanned books, or older web collections are distributed as DjVu rather than PDF.

Package-manager adoption persists because DjView4 is the practical desktop viewer for a legacy but still-present document format. The official DjView4 page points to binary packaging through Fedora/Redhat, openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows SourceForge downloads, and Mac OS SourceForge downloads.

How it is used

Users run `djview4 file.djvu` or open local and remote DjVu URLs. The official man page notes standalone viewing, browser-plugin slave-process behavior, command-line options, multi-page display, hidden-text search, thumbnail display, bundled or indirect multi-page saving, and export or print workflows.

Why package nerds care

DjView4 is package-nerd significant as a survivor from the era when browser plugins, scanned-document compression, and Unix desktop viewers overlapped. It keeps DjVu readable from modern package managers even as the format is no longer mainstream, and it separates the viewer from the broader DjVuLibre encoder/utility suite.

Timeline

  • 1996: DjVu project started at AT&T Labs-Research.
  • 1999: AT&T released version 2.0 of the DjVu Reference Library under an open source license.
  • 2000: LizardTech acquired DjVu technology from AT&T and released reference-library code under the GPL.
  • 2001-10-11: Official djview4 man page carries an update date in the DjVuLibre documentation.
  • 2020-11-20: DjView4 4.12 released, as listed by the official DjView4 page.

Related projects

  • Related tools include DjVuLibre's command-line utilities such as ddjvu, djvused, djvutxt, and djvudump; JavaDjVu for Java viewing; GSDjVu for Ghostscript-based conversion; and PDF viewers and converters used in adjacent scanned-document workflows.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:image

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 4 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 6 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
djviewcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version4.12.3
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:djview4
Version4.12.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/djview4
Homepagehttps://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html
Repositoryhttps://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/djview-git/ci/master/tree
Upstream docshttps://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/djvu/DjView/4.12/djview-4.12.3.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-22T14:03:10-07:00
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesdjvulibre, libtiff, qt5compat, qtbase
Build dependenciesautoconf, automake, librsvg, libtool, pkgconf, qttools
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namedjview4
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

djview4 4.12-3+b3

Viewer for the DjVu image format

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

sudo apt install djview4
  • Section: graphics
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: djview4
  • 13 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Djview4
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: djview4 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

djview4

nix profile install nixpkgs#djview4
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Djview4
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: djview4 from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Ubuntu apt95%

djview4 4.12-3build3

Viewer for the DjVu image format

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

sudo apt install djview4
  • Section: universe/graphics
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 13 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Djview4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: djview4 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

djview4 4.12-16.fc44

DjVu viewer

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html

sudo dnf install djview4
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: djview4
  • 13 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Djview4
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: djview4 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

djview4-plugin 4.12-16.fc44

Browser plugin for DjVu viewer

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html

sudo dnf install djview4-plugin
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: djview4
  • 3 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Djview4
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: djview4-plugin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts94%

djview

sudo port install djview
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: aqua/djview/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Debian apt92%

djview 3.5.28-2.2

Transition package, djview3 to djview4

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

sudo apt install djview
  • Section: graphics
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: djvulibre
  • 2 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: djview from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix92%

djview

nix profile install nixpkgs#djview
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dj/djview/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt92%

djview 3.5.28-2build4

Transition package, djview3 to djview4

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

sudo apt install djview
  • Section: universe/graphics
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: djvulibre
  • 2 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: djview from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
pacman92%

djview 4.12.3-1

Viewer for DjVu documents

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html

sudo pacman -S djview
  • License: GPL2
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 3 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: djview from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
winget92%

DjVuLibre.DjView

winget install --id DjVuLibre.DjView -e
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Djview
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: DjVuLibre.DjView from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • djvulibreRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libtiffRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • qtbaseRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • autoconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • automakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • librsvgBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libtoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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  • qjackctlShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gui, media, qt.
  • dspdfviewerShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media, qt.
  • lutgenShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gui, media.
  • minidjvuShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, djvu, media.
  • nip4Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gui, media.

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  • curated package history
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