# darkstat mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für darkstat in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:darkstat
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install darkstat
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install darkstat
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: net/darkstat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add darkstat
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darkstat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install darkstat
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: darkstat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install darkstat
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: darkstat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#darkstat
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S darkstat
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: darkstat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:darkstat
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.0.722
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Network traffic analyzer
- **Homepage:** <https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/emikulic/darkstat>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-19T12:30:05-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- darkstat (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.0.722
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

darkstat is a network traffic analyzer that captures packets, accumulates traffic statistics, and serves reports over HTTP.

### Projektgeschichte

Emil Mikulic's official darkstat page describes a small, portable, single-threaded network statistics gatherer with an embedded web server. The ChangeLog records darkstat 2 ending at v2.6 in 2003, followed by a near-complete v3 rewrite and first public darkstat 3 release in June 2006.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The official page lists packaging and port references across FreeBSD Ports, OpenBSD ports, pkgsrc, Gentoo, SUSE, Debian, OpenWRT, SlackBuilds, Ubuntu, and firewall-oriented distributions. It also documents portability reports for AIX, BSDs, Linux distributions, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The quickstart is intentionally Unix-like: configure, make, then run darkstat -i eth0. The tool sniffs an interface, tracks host and port statistics, draws traffic graphs, and exposes the reports through its own HTTP interface.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

darkstat is a classic sysadmin package: small enough for routers and old Unix systems, visual enough to be useful from a browser, and old enough to show how libpcap-based monitoring tools were packaged across many ports trees.

### Zeitleiste

- 2001: The official page's copyright span begins.
- 2003: darkstat 2 ended at v2.6.
- 2006: darkstat 3 had its first public release after a near-complete rewrite.
- 2011: IPv6 support was added.
- 2022: Prometheus metrics export was added.
- 2025: v3.0.722 was published on GitHub.

### Related projects

- The official page lists ntop and vnstat as similar tools and connects darkstat to libpcap-based Unix traffic monitoring.

### Quellen

- <https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat>
- <https://github.com/emikulic/darkstat>
- <https://github.com/emikulic/darkstat/blob/master/ChangeLog>
- <https://github.com/emikulic/darkstat/releases>


## Sicherheitshinweise

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

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - darkstat - 3.0.721-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: darkstat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network traffic analyzer | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/
- Nix - darkstat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/darkstat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - darkstat - 3.0.719-1.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: darkstat from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | network traffic analyzer | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/
- apk - darkstat - 3.0.722-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darkstat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Network traffic analyzer with reports served over HTTP | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/
- apk - darkstat-doc - 3.0.722-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darkstat-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Network traffic analyzer with reports served over HTTP (documentation) | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/
- dnf - darkstat - 3.0.721-14.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: darkstat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Network traffic analyzer | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat
- pacman - darkstat - 3.0.722-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: darkstat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Network statistics gatherer (packet sniffer) | https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/
- MacPorts - darkstat: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/darkstat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/darkstat.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/darkstat.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
