# Install shellcheck with npm

Wrapper to download shellcheck. Version 4.1.0 via npm; verified 2025-08-12.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:shellcheck
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g shellcheck
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:shellcheck
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/shellcheck>
- **Version:** 4.1.0
- **Source summary:** Wrapper to download shellcheck
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/gunar/shellcheck#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gunar/shellcheck>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/gunar/shellcheck#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/shellcheck/-/shellcheck-4.1.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/gunar/shellcheck/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-08-12T14:10:47.200Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-12T14:10:47.200Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- shellcheck (cli)

## Dependencies

- @felipecrs/decompress-tarxz
- @xhmikosr/decompress-unzip
- decompress
- envalid
- global-agent

## Build dependencies

- @cspell/dict-en_us
- @cspell/dict-node
- @cspell/dict-npm
- @cspell/dict-typescript
- @cspell/eslint-plugin
- @types/decompress
- @types/global-agent
- @types/node
- @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin
- @typescript-eslint/parser
- @vitest/coverage-v8
- @vitest/eslint-plugin
- cspell
- eslint
- eslint-config-airbnb-base
- eslint-config-airbnb-typescript
- eslint-config-prettier
- eslint-import-resolver-typescript
- eslint-plugin-import
- eslint-plugin-prettier
- eslint-plugin-tsdoc
- husky
- lint-staged
- markdownlint
- markdownlint-cli
- npm-run-all
- prettier
- prettier-plugin-packagejson
- shx
- ts-patch
- tsconfig-paths
- typescript
- typescript-transform-paths
- vite-tsconfig-paths
- vitest

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Lifecycle scripts: prepare
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 4.1.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-08-12
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/gunar/shellcheck
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for shellcheck. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 4.1.0
- **Version Count:** 27
- **Maintainers:** gunar
- **Author:** Gunar C. Gessner
- **Publisher:** gunar
- **Engines:** Node: >=20.9.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-8143z6YGO4+Puwp9Ghn/g7+QxllSKlXaZSm3HXfvQXUfRXhM5P8TPORRHBBlyobl9BnniVne+d1Ff6RgNiccsQ==
- **Shasum:** cbd8e681fed812f83a4bba9d46c4092f14eed8af
- **Unpacked Size:** 41,159
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2017-11-28T10:50:54.555Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-08-12T14:10:47.200Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-08-12T14:10:47.682Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - shellcheck - 0.10.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: shellcheck from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | lint tool for shell scripts | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- Nix - shellcheck: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: shellcheck from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- Ubuntu apt - shellcheck - 0.9.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: shellcheck from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | lint tool for shell scripts | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- apk - shellcheck - 0.11.0-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: shellcheck from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | a static analysis tool for shell scripts | https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
- apk - shellcheck-doc - 0.11.0-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: shellcheck-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | a static analysis tool for shell scripts (documentation) | https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
- dnf - ShellCheck - 0.11.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ShellCheck from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Shell script analysis tool | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- dnf - ghc-ShellCheck - 0.11.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- dnf - ghc-ShellCheck-devel - 0.11.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library development files | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- dnf - ghc-ShellCheck-doc - 0.11.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library documentation | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- dnf - ghc-ShellCheck-prof - 0.11.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-prof from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck profiling library | https://www.shellcheck.net/
- pacman - shellcheck - 0.11.0-110: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: shellcheck from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Shell script analysis tool | https://www.shellcheck.net
- zypper - ShellCheck - 0.10.0-2.23: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ShellCheck from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Shell script analysis tool | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck
- zypper - ghc-ShellCheck - 0.10.0-2.23: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck
- zypper - ghc-ShellCheck-devel - 0.10.0-2.23: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library development files | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck
- zypper - ghc-ShellCheck-doc - 0.10.0-2.23: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck library documentation | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck
- zypper - ghc-ShellCheck-prof - 0.10.0-2.23: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ghc-ShellCheck-prof from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Haskell ShellCheck profiling library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [shellcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/shellcheck/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: bash, cli, developer, developer-tools, linting.
- [gherkin-lint-ts](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/gherkin-lint-ts/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, linting, terminal.
- [skill-check](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/skill-check/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agent, cli, developer, developer-tools, linting.
- [shellcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/shellcheck/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
