# nexttrace mit Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:nexttrace
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install nexttrace
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#nexttrace
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/nexttrace
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/nexttrace.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id NextTrace.NextTrace.Core -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: NextTrace.NextTrace.Core from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:nexttrace
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Open source visual route tracking CLI tool
- **Homepage:** <https://www.nxtrace.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/nxtrace/NTrace-core>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T19:43:15+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- nexttrace (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.7.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

NextTrace is a Go-based visual traceroute and routing-inspection CLI. It extends the familiar traceroute/MTR niche with IP annotation, AS-path and geolocation context, optional MTR-style views, Globalping support, and multiple binary flavors.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository positions NTrace-core as the stable mirror while NTrace-dev receives development first; after a version has run stably, it is synchronized into NTrace-core. That split explains why package managers may lag the project's own newest release stream.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

NextTrace has broader community uptake than most small network CLIs in this batch. The GitHub page showed about 8k stars, 475 forks, and 92 releases when researched. The project documents official APT packaging, Homebrew-core, a separate Homebrew tap, AUR, Termux, ImmortalWrt, Scoop, Winget, and binary downloads.

Homebrew's API generated on 2026-04-10 reported 2,700 installs-on-request in the preceding 365 days for the Homebrew-core `nexttrace` formula.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package nerds use it when plain traceroute is too terse: `nexttrace example.com` for path plus geographic/ASN annotations, `--mtu` for path MTU checks, `--nali` for IP annotations, `-F` for fast trace, and MTR-style modes when they want repeated latency/loss views. Homebrew-core ships the full `nexttrace` flavor and its caveat warns that root privileges may be required.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The interesting packaging detail is the flavor split. The upstream README says APT and the nxtrace Homebrew tap provide `nexttrace`, `nexttrace-tiny`, and `ntr`, while Homebrew-core, AUR, Scoop, and similar sources install the full `nexttrace` build only.

### Zeitleiste

- 2026-04-10: Homebrew formula API generated data for nexttrace 1.6.1.
- 2026-06-16: GitHub release listing showed v1.7.1 as the latest NTrace-core release.

### Related projects

- NTrace-dev
- nali
- mtr
- traceroute
- Globalping
- PeeringDB
- BGP.tools

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nexttrace.json>
- <https://github.com/nxtrace/NTrace-core>
- <https://www.nxtrace.org/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für nexttrace wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - nexttrace: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ne/nexttrace/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/nexttrace: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/nexttrace.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - NextTrace.NextTrace.Core: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: NextTrace.NextTrace.Core from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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