# Install cargo-geiger with Cargo

Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies. Version 0.13.0 via Cargo; verified 2025-08-31. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-geiger.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:cargo-geiger
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install cargo-geiger
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cargo:cargo-geiger
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager page:** <https://crates.io/crates/cargo-geiger>
- **Version:** 0.13.0
- **Source summary:** Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger>
- **License:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/cargo-geiger/cargo-geiger-0.13.0.crate>
- **Published:** 2025-08-31 08:40:31.637036+00
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-31 08:40:31.637036+00
- **Generated:** 2026-09-19T06:45:57+00:00

## Executables

- cargo-geiger (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-09-19
- Package-manager version: 0.13.0

## Security Notes

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


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** crates.io database dump
- **Crate ID:** 71,011
- **Crate Size:** 84,729
- **Edition:** 2018
- **Executable Intent:** Intent: public_cli, Signals: archive contains src/main.rs, binary name matches crate name, binary is a Cargo subcommand
- **Has Lib:** yes
- **Num Versions:** 33
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Rust Version:** 1.85
- **Version ID:** 1,708,632

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - cargo-geiger: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-geiger/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - cargo-geiger - 0.13.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cargo-geiger from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies. | https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger
- apk - cargo-geiger-doc - 0.13.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cargo-geiger-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies. (documentation) | https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger
- pacman - cargo-geiger - 0.13.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cargo-geiger from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies | https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger


## Related links

- [cargo-geiger](https://pkg.so/brew/cargo-geiger/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- crates.io package index
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph