# Install tokyo-dystopia with Homebrew Lightweight full-text search system. Version 0.9.15 via Homebrew; verified 2026-04-18. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:tokyo-dystopia ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install tokyo-dystopia ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:tokyo-dystopia - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.9.15 - **Source summary:** Lightweight full-text search system - **Homepage:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** LGPL-2.1-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-04-18T21:36:21-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - dystmgr (cli) - dysttest (cli) - lapumgr (cli) - laputest (cli) - tcqmgr (cli) - tcqtest (cli) - tcwmgr (cli) - tcwtest (cli) - dystmgr (alias) - dysttest (alias) - lapumgr (alias) - laputest (alias) - tcqmgr (alias) - tcqtest (alias) - tcwmgr (alias) - tcwtest (alias) ## Dependencies - tokyo-cabinet ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.9.15 - Package-manager updated: 2026-04-18 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://dbmx.net/tokyodystopia/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## 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 - - - source_facts.executables - 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:** tokyo-dystopia - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## 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. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched database, SQL, migration, or data-store metadata. - [tokyo-cabinet](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tokyo-cabinet/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [hyperestraier](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hyperestraier/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine. - [groonga](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/groonga/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine. - [manticoresearch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/manticoresearch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine. - [meilisearch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/meilisearch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search, search-engine. - [omega](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/omega/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, search, search-engine. - [opensearch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/opensearch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, search, search-engine. - [pgroonga](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pgroonga/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search. - [sonic](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/sonic/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, full-text-search, search. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tokyo-dystopia.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/tokyo-dystopia.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 - cross-ecosystem install command graph