# Install markdown with Homebrew, apk, apt, zypper Text-to-HTML conversion tool. Version 1.0.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:markdown ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install markdown ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add markdown ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: markdown from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install markdown ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: markdown from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install MultiMarkdown-6 ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: MultiMarkdown-6 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:markdown - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.0.1 - **Source summary:** Text-to-HTML conversion tool - **Homepage:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-3-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - markdown (cli) - markdown (alias) ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.0.1 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Markdown is John Gruber's original text-to-HTML conversion tool and the reference distribution for the Markdown plain-text formatting syntax. ### Project history The official Daring Fireball page presents Markdown as two things: a plain-text formatting syntax and a Perl software tool that converts that text to HTML. It describes the design goal as making source text readable enough to publish as plain text, with plain-text email named as the largest influence. The downloadable Markdown 1.0.1 release is dated 17 December 2004. The original tool targeted the weblog tooling of its era, with installation instructions for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit, and required Perl 5.6.0 or later. ### Adoption history Markdown's adoption outgrew the original Perl script and became a durable interchange format for README files, static-site content, issue trackers, package registries, documentation generators, and editor tooling. In this Homebrew package, the shipped executable preserves the original conversion-tool lineage rather than the many later Markdown implementations. The supplied package facts show distro packaging in Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE-family packaging via MultiMarkdown, reflecting how the original syntax and tool became part of Unix-like documentation workflows. ### How it is used The original use case is to write readable plain text and convert it to structurally valid HTML. The Daring Fireball page documents weblog integration, text-filter usage in BBEdit, an online Dingus for trying the syntax, and a configuration switch for XHTML-style versus HTML-style empty tags. ### Why package nerds care This package is historically important because it is the source of the Markdown name and reference syntax, not merely one parser among many. Package nerds care about it as a small Perl-era CLI whose influence is vastly larger than its code size. ### Timeline - 2004: Markdown 1.0.1 download dated 17 December 2004 on the official project page. - 2004: Official documentation describes Markdown as both syntax and a Perl text-to-HTML tool. - 2026: Supplied package facts show continuing packaging in Homebrew and several Linux distributions. ### Related projects - The official page references SmartyPants as an optional pairing for typographic punctuation in Movable Type. - The package ecosystem later produced many related implementations and descendants, but this Homebrew formula tracks the original Daring Fireball Markdown tool. ### Sources - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** markdown - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Conflicts With:** discount, multimarkdown - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - markdown - 1.0.1-14: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: markdown from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Text-to-HTML conversion tool | https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - Ubuntu apt - markdown - 1.0.1-12: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: markdown from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Text-to-HTML conversion tool | http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - apk - markdown - 1.0.1-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: markdown from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers | https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - apk - markdown-doc - 1.0.1-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: markdown-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers (documentation) | https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - zypper - MultiMarkdown-6 - 6.7.0-1.8: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: MultiMarkdown-6 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Reference implementation of MultiMarkdown | https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown - zypper - discount - 3.0.1.2-2.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: discount from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Markdown text to HTML converter | https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [html2markdown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/html2markdown/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, conversion, developer-tools, html, markdown. - [vilistextum](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/vilistextum/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, conversion, developer-tools, html, markup. - [discount](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/discount/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html, markdown, markup. - [html2text](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/html2text/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, conversion, developer-tools, html, markup. - [pandoc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pandoc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html, markdown, markup. - [html-xml-utils](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/html-xml-utils/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, html, markup. - [htmldoc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/htmldoc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, conversion, developer-tools, documentation, html. - [python-markdown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-markdown/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, markdown, markup. - [markdown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/markdown/) - Same normalized package name in another local ecosystem. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/markdown.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/markdown.yml) ## Sources - 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