macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install hyperestraierlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install hyperestraierMacPorts ports tree · textproc/hyperestraier/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install hyperestraier with Homebrew, dnf, MacPorts
Full-text search system for communities. Version 1.4.13 via Homebrew; verified 2026-04-18.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install hyperestraierFedora Rawhide package metadata · hyperestraier · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
overview
Package summary
Full-text search system for communities
Project links
Commands and aliases
- estbutler
- estcall
- estcmd
- estconfig
- estload
- estmaster
- estmttest
- estwaver
- estwolefind
history
Project history and usage
Hyper Estraier is Mikio Hirabayashi's LGPL full-text search system for building local, site, and community search indexes, with command-line tools, a crawler, APIs, Unicode support, and a documented P2P search architecture.
Project history
The official site carries a 2004-2007 copyright notice and presents Hyper Estraier as a full-text search system for communities. It was distributed as source packages with manuals for introduction, user operation, programming, node operation, crawler use, and P2P operation.
Hyper Estraier followed Estraier and QDBM-era search tooling from the same authorial ecosystem. Its feature list reflects mid-2000s search-engine concerns: N-gram recall, optional morphological analysis, phrase and regular-expression search, attribute search, similarity search, repository-independent indexing, and multilingual Unicode handling.
Adoption history
The project was useful in an era when small sites, mail archives, local file servers, and community portals often needed self-hosted search before hosted search APIs became routine. Homebrew, Fedora, and MacPorts package metadata keep it installable for users maintaining legacy search stacks or old integrations.
How it is used
The user guide centers on building an index with `estcmd` and searching through either command-line administration or the `estsearch.cgi` web interface. The wider toolset includes crawler and node-management commands such as `estwaver` and `estmaster`.
Why package nerds care
Hyper Estraier is package-nerd archaeology in the best sense: a compact, source-distributed Unix search system with many small executables, CGI support, C APIs, language bindings, and P2P ambitions. It is a snapshot of how self-hosted search was packaged before Lucene-derived stacks dominated most new deployments.
Timeline
- 2004: Hyper Estraier copyright period begins on the official site.
- 2007: The official English site lists version 1.4.13 and a March 2007 page update.
- 2010: Hyper Estraier Encore forked version 1.4.13 for continued maintenance experiments.
Related projects
- Hyper Estraier is related to Estraier, QDBM, Hyper Estraier Encore, local CGI search systems, and Japanese Unix full-text-search tooling.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
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.
- Build metadata lists 1 build 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
estbutler | cli | global executable | |
estcall | cli | global executable | |
estcmd | cli | global executable | |
estconfig | cli | global executable | |
estload | cli | global executable | |
estmaster | cli | global executable | |
estmttest | cli | global executable | |
estwaver | cli | global executable | |
estwolefind | 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 version1.4.13
manager updated2026-04-18
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:hyperestraier |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.4.13 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hyperestraier |
| Homepage | https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/ |
| Upstream docs | https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier |
| License | LGPL-2.1-or-later |
| Source archive | https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/hyperestraier-1.4.13.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-04-18T21:23:49-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | qdbm |
| Build dependencies | pkgconf |
| 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 | hyperestraier |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | yes |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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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%
hyperestraier 1.4.13-73.fc44
A full-text search system
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
sudo dnf install hyperestraier- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: hyperestraier
- 9 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
dnf95%
hyperestraier-devel 1.4.13-73.fc44
Libraries and Header files for Hyper Estraier
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
sudo dnf install hyperestraier-devel- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: hyperestraier
- 6 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
dnf95%
hyperestraier-java 1.4.13-73.fc44
Hyper Estraier library for Java
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
sudo dnf install hyperestraier-java- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: hyperestraier
- 6 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
dnf95%
hyperestraier-perl 1.4.13-73.fc44
Hyper Estraier library for Perl
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
sudo dnf install hyperestraier-perl- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: hyperestraier
- 13 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
dnf95%
ruby-hyperestraier 1.4.13-73.fc44
Hyper Estraier Library for Ruby
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
sudo dnf install ruby-hyperestraier- License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: hyperestraier
- 8 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
MacPorts95%
hyperestraier
sudo port install hyperestraier- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Hyperestraier
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.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment