# tracebox mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:tracebox
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tracebox
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tracebox
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:tracebox
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Middlebox detection tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-25T13:38:09+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- luatracebox (Alias)
- tracebox (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.4.4
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Tracebox is a network-diagnostics CLI for detecting middleboxes on an Internet path. Its README describes it as traceroute-like, but focused on identifying packet modifications by comparing probes with ICMP replies.

### Projektgeschichte

Tracebox comes from the research and measurement side of networking. The project page explains that it detects middleboxes by using ICMP replies to identify changes in packets, relying on the common behavior of devices that return more of the original datagram than the minimum described by RFC 792.

The GitHub repository was created in 2013, with public release metadata from v0.3 in May 2015 through v0.4.4 in January 2018. The source tree includes C and C++ implementation code, Lua support, manual pages, and documentation.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Tracebox's own README documents Homebrew installation for macOS, Linux builds from autotools dependencies, an OpenWRT package feed, and an Android build script for rooted phones. The OpenWRT section is explicitly marked unmaintained, which fits a project that was useful to network researchers and operators but did not become a constantly refreshed mainstream CLI.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `tracebox` or `luatracebox` to probe a path and inspect hop-by-hop packet modifications. The README documents JSON output via `-j`, verbose modification details, hop data, ICMP extensions, additions, deletions, and modifications, making it scriptable for measurement workflows.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

In package-manager culture, Tracebox is a classic specialist network tool: packaged in Homebrew and Nix, rooted in Unix build conventions, and interesting because it extends the familiar traceroute mental model into middlebox detection and JSON-producing measurement.

### Zeitleiste

- 2013-06: GitHub repository created.
- 2015-05: Tracebox v0.3 released.
- 2017-10: Tracebox v0.4.2 released.
- 2018-01: Tracebox v0.4.4 released.

### Related projects

- traceroute, ICMP, Lua, OpenWRT, Android builds, libpcap, netfilter queue.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tracebox/tracebox>
- <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox#readme>
- <https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox/releases>
- <https://www.tracebox.org/>
- <https://www.tracebox.org/lua_doc>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - tracebox: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tr/tracebox/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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