# Install chainsaw

Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts. Version 2.16.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-09.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chainsaw
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chainsaw
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#chainsaw
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chainsaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install apache-chainsaw
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-chainsaw from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/155b97171d05e27afd950b6fe0d55513ff38f4597110664535bceedc680bbe6fd459f0733718dcc21dcf0efc7c8250fd1390c73d4790b42e62fb2c16a87242e5-primary.xml.zst

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** brew:chainsaw
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager URL:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chainsaw>
- **Version:** 2.16.0
- **Source summary:** Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw#readme>
- **License:** GPL-3.0-only
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw/archive/refs/tags/v2.16.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-09T11:59:50Z
- **Generated:** 2026-06-10T07:18:26+00:00

## Executables

- chainsaw (cli)
- chainsaw (alias)

## Build Dependencies

- rust

## Install Behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-10
- Package-manager version: 2.16.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-09
- Local data status: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
- Upstream latest detected: v2.16.0 (current)

## Sicherheitshinweise

no executable entrypoint in the package index.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- no executable entrypoint in the package index

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** chainsaw
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - chainsaw: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chainsaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - apache-chainsaw - 2.1.0-5.8: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-chainsaw from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/155b97171d05e27afd950b6fe0d55513ff38f4597110664535bceedc680bbe6fd459f0733718dcc21dcf0efc7c8250fd1390c73d4790b42e62fb2c16a87242e5-primary.xml.zst | Apache Chainsaw | https://logging.apache.org/chainsaw


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## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
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- external package-manager database matches
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