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Lightweight full-text search system. Version 0.9.15 via Homebrew; verified 2026-04-18.
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Additional install commands
overview
Package summary
Lightweight full-text search system
Project links
Commands and aliases
- dystmgr
- dysttest
- lapumgr
- laputest
- tcqmgr
- tcqtest
- tcwmgr
- tcwtest
history
Project history and usage
Tokyo Dystopia is FAL Labs' lightweight full-text search system, documented as a C99/POSIX, LGPL-licensed package for searching large sets of records by specified patterns. It complements Tokyo Cabinet by adding full-text indexing and search-oriented APIs rather than general key/value storage.
Project history
The official page carries a 2007-2010 FAL Labs copyright notice and was last updated on 2010-08-05. It describes Tokyo Dystopia as written and maintained by FAL Labs, and the specification says installation requires the latest Tokyo Cabinet first, making Dystopia part of the same FAL Labs database-tool family.
Adoption history
The documented distribution model mirrors Tokyo Cabinet: upstream source packages, with binary packages handled by distributors. In Homebrew and similar package-manager contexts, that made Tokyo Dystopia a niche but useful package for developers who wanted an embeddable full-text search library and CLI tools without deploying a larger search server.
How it is used
The official specification documents `./configure`, `make`, `make check`, and `make install`, producing headers, `libtokyodystopia`, pkg-config metadata, command-line tools such as `dystmgr`, `tcqmgr`, `tcwmgr`, and `lapumgr`, and CGI helpers. Its core model stores indexed text records and supports phrase, prefix, suffix, token, and character N-gram search, with Unicode-oriented multilingual support.
Why package nerds care
Tokyo Dystopia is significant in the package-nerd niche because it packages a late-2000s search engine as a small Unix library/toolkit: it depends on Tokyo Cabinet, installs many focused binaries, and exposes enough low-level pieces for scripting, experiments, and embedded search features.
Timeline
- 2007: Official copyright range begins for Tokyo Dystopia.
- 2010: Official page last updated and latest source package listed as 0.9.15.
- Current: Homebrew still identifies it as a lightweight full-text search system.
Related projects
- Tokyo Dystopia is directly related to Tokyo Cabinet, which the official installation instructions require. It belongs to the FAL Labs Tokyo family alongside Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant.
Sources
- https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia
- https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/spex.html
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
dystmgr | cli | global executable | |
dysttest | cli | global executable | |
lapumgr | cli | global executable | |
laputest | cli | global executable | |
tcqmgr | cli | global executable | |
tcqtest | cli | global executable | |
tcwmgr | cli | global executable | |
tcwtest | 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 version0.9.15
manager updated2026-04-18
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:tokyo-dystopia |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.15 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tokyo-dystopia |
| Homepage | https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/ |
| Upstream docs | https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia |
| License | LGPL-2.1-or-later |
| Source archive | https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/tokyodystopia-0.9.15.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-04-18T21:36:21-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | tokyo-cabinet |
| 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 | tokyo-dystopia |
| 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 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
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment