# Install sextractor with Homebrew, dnf

Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images. Version 2.28.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:sextractor
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sextractor
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install sextractor
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sextractor from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:sextractor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sextractor>
- **Version:** 2.28.2
- **Source summary:** Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images
- **Homepage:** <https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/astromatic/sextractor>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://sextractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest>
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/astromatic/sextractor/archive/refs/tags/2.28.2.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- ldactoasc (cli)
- sex (cli)
- ldactoasc (alias)
- sex (alias)

## Dependencies

- cfitsio
- fftw
- openblas

## Build dependencies

- autoconf
- automake
- libtool

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.28.2
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/astromatic/sextractor
- Upstream latest detected: 2.28.2 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.

## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./default.sex
## Source Database Details

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- dnf - sextractor - 2.28.2-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sextractor from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images | http://astromatic.iap.fr/software/sextractor


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- [cfitsio](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cfitsio/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [fftw](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fftw/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [autoconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/autoconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [automake](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/automake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [libtool](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libtool/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [calceph](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/calceph/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [ccfits](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ccfits/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [cdsclient](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cdsclient/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [gnuastro](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gnuastro/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [healpix](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/healpix/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [libnova](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libnova/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [montage](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/montage/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: astronomy, cli, science.
- [astrometry-net](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/astrometry-net/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: astronomical, astronomy, cfitsio, cli, images.
- [root](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/root/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: analysis, cfitsio, cli, fftw, openblas.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sextractor.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/sextractor.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph