# tailspin mit Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:tailspin
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tailspin
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add tailspin
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install tailspin
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tailspin
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S tailspin
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/tailspin
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id bensadeh.tailspin -e
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:tailspin
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 7.0.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Log file highlighter
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-14T10:13:49Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- tspin (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 7.0.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

tailspin is a Rust command-line log highlighter distributed as the `tspin` executable. Its upstream README presents it as a no-setup tool for viewing or tailing arbitrary log files while highlighting common log tokens such as dates, numbers, IP addresses, UUIDs, URLs, paths, keywords, and process names.

### Projektgeschichte

The project fits the modern Rust CLI pattern: a small terminal tool with sensible defaults, TOML customization, Cargo availability, and examples built around Unix pipelines. Its README emphasizes that tailspin does not assume a specific log format, which makes it useful across application, infrastructure, and Kubernetes log streams.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Upstream installation instructions list Homebrew, Cargo, Arch Linux, Nix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Scoop, showing that the tool moved beyond source builds into the package-manager channels used by command-line users on several platforms.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Common usage is to run `tspin application.log`, pipe log output through `tspin`, or wrap a command such as `kubectl logs` with `--exec`. The README also documents integration with `less`, environment-variable extras, command-line highlights, and a user theme file.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about tailspin because it is a compact example of the Rust terminal-tool wave: a single executable, cross-platform packaging, no required daemon or service, and a configuration file only for users who want themed highlighting.

### Zeitleiste

- Current upstream README: Documents `tspin` usage, multiple package-manager installs, and optional `~/.config/tailspin/theme.toml` customization.

### Related projects

- tailspin is adjacent to classic pagers and log viewers such as `less`, but it focuses on syntax-style highlighting for generic logs rather than on indexing, querying, or storing log data.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

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



## 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: ~/.config/tailspin/theme.toml
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - tailspin - 5.4.2~dfsg-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: tailspin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | log file highlighter | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- Nix - tailspin: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ta/tailspin/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - tailspin - 2.0.0+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: tailspin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | log file highlighter | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- apk - tailspin - 7.0.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: tailspin from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Log file highlighter | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- apk - tailspin-bash-completion - 7.0.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: tailspin-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for tailspin | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- apk - tailspin-doc - 7.0.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: tailspin-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Log file highlighter (documentation) | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- apk - tailspin-fish-completion - 7.0.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: tailspin-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for tailspin | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- apk - tailspin-zsh-completion - 7.0.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: tailspin-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for tailspin | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- pacman - tailspin - 7.0.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: tailspin from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A log file highlighter | https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin
- Scoop - main/tailspin: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/tailspin.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - bensadeh.tailspin: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: bensadeh.tailspin from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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