install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install eg

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%

sudo dnf install eg

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

overview

Package summary

Expert Guide. Norton Guide Reader For GNU/Linux

Project links

Commands and aliases

eg

history

Project history and usage

eg, short for Expert Guide, is a console Norton Guide reader for GNU/Linux and macOS.

Project history

The upstream README describes Expert Guide as a Norton Guide reader developed on and for Linux, with possible portability to DOS via DJGPP and other Unix-like systems with the S-Lang library. The GitHub repository was created in 2015, but the Changes file records much earlier 0.00 through 0.05-era development history.

Adoption history

The package is niche because Norton Guide files are a legacy documentation format. Its Homebrew formula keeps a small terminal reader available for users who still have old guides or want a Unix-like way to inspect them.

How it is used

Users build with make, install with make install, and read the included man page for basic usage. The README notes that anyone familiar with Norton Guide or Expert Help should understand the interface quickly.

The Changes file documents features typical of an interactive terminal reader: remembered last guide location, menus, search, regular expression search, save-to-file, guide directory scanning, config reading from ~/.egrc, suspend/resume, and repeated search.

Why package nerds care

This eg is package-nerd-significant mostly as preservation tooling. It keeps a DOS-era documentation reader pattern available in Unix package managers and also creates the naming collision that makes srsudar/eg ship in Homebrew as eg-examples.

Timeline

Pre-2015: Changes file records 0.00 through 0.05 development.
2015: Public GitHub repository created.
2015: README footnote records macOS support as of December 2015.
2017: Repository last pushed according to GitHub metadata.

Related projects

Related projects include Norton Guide, Expert Help, DJGPP, S-Lang, and the unrelated srsudar/eg command-example browser.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for eg. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`eg`	cli	global 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 version1.02

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv1.02

https://github.com/davep/eg

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:eg
Version	1.02
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/eg
Homepage	https://github.com/davep/eg
Repository	https://github.com/davep/eg
Upstream docs	https://github.com/davep/eg#readme
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	https://github.com/davep/eg/archive/refs/tags/v1.02.tar.gz
Dependencies	s-lang
Bottle	available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	eg
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Conflicts With	eg-examples
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head 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.

dnf95%

eg 1.7.5.2-43.fc44

Git for mere mortals

http://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

sudo dnf install eg

License: GPL-2.0-only
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: eg
4 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Eg

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

package graph

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

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/eg.yml

Used sources

Nucleus package database
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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