# Installer snowflake avec Homebrew, apk, Nix, zypper, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de snowflake pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:snowflake
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install snowflake
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add snowflake
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#snowflake
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install snowflake
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: snowflake from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install golang-snowflake-dev
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: golang-snowflake-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:snowflake
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.14.1
- **Résumé source:** Pluggable Transport using WebRTC, inspired by Flashproxy
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.torproject.org>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-26T04:03:43+02:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- snowflake-broker (alias)
- snowflake-client (alias)
- snowflake-proxy (alias)
- snowflake-server (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.14.1
## Historique du projet et usages

Tor Snowflake is a censorship-circumvention pluggable transport that uses WebRTC and volunteer proxies to help users connect to Tor where direct access is blocked. It sits in the CLI/package-manager world as both user-facing Tor transport software and a proxy package that volunteers can run from terminals, servers, browsers, or containers.

### Historique du projet

The official repository describes Snowflake as a censorship-evasion pluggable transport inspired by Flashproxy. Its code is organized around broker, client, proxy, server, common libraries, and documentation components, reflecting the split between Tor clients, volunteer proxies, and bridge-side infrastructure.

The Tor Project's public Snowflake site explains the user-facing model: censored users route through volunteer proxies in uncensored locations, while WebRTC makes traffic resemble common audio or video calling patterns. The project is part of Tor's pluggable transports family.

### Historique d'adoption

Snowflake became a community-operated contribution path for people who cannot or do not want to run a full Tor relay or bridge. Tor's community docs present browser proxy, standalone proxy, Docker, Debian, FreeBSD, Ansible, and source builds as supported setup routes.

The package-manager footprint in the input lists Homebrew, apk, Debian/Ubuntu, Nix, and zypper packages, which shows Snowflake crossing from Tor-specific docs into ordinary Unix package ecosystems.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run Snowflake through Tor as a client pluggable transport. Volunteers can run a browser extension, a web widget, a standalone Go proxy, a Docker deployment, or packaged services such as Debian's `snowflake-proxy`.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package nerds care because Snowflake turns anti-censorship infrastructure into installable components: separate broker/client/proxy/server binaries, distro packages, reproducible Android build notes, container deployment, and service-management instructions. It is a rare package where installation choices directly affect a public circumvention network.

### Chronologie

- 2019: Official GitLab project metadata records the current Tor Project repository.
- 2020s: Tor community documentation describes browser, standalone, Docker, Debian, FreeBSD, Ansible, and source installation paths.
- 2026: The official GitLab project remains active according to repository metadata.

### Related projects

- Related Tor circumvention tools include Flashproxy, meek, obfs4, WebTunnel, Tor Browser, and the pluggable transports specification.

### Sources

- <https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/>
- <https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/>
- <https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/debian/>
- <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake>
- <https://snowflake.torproject.org/>


## Notes de sécurité

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

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - golang-snowflake-dev - 2.5.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: golang-snowflake-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (library) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- Debian apt - snowflake-client - 2.5.1-1+b16: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: snowflake-client from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (client) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- Debian apt - snowflake-proxy - 2.5.1-1+b16: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: snowflake-proxy from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (proxy) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- Nix - snowflake: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sn/snowflake/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - golang-snowflake-dev - 2.5.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: golang-snowflake-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (library) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- Ubuntu apt - snowflake-client - 2.5.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: snowflake-client from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (client) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- Ubuntu apt - snowflake-proxy - 2.5.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: snowflake-proxy from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | WebRTC pluggable transport for Tor (proxy) | https://snowflake.torproject.org
- apk - snowflake - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - meta package | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-client - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-client from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - client | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-client-doc - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-client-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - client (man page) | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-doc - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC (documentation) | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-proxy - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-proxy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - proxy | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-proxy-doc - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-proxy-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - proxy (man page) | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- apk - snowflake-proxy-openrc - 2.14.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: snowflake-proxy-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Pluggable Transport for Tor using WebRTC - proxy (OpenRC init scripts) | https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- zypper - snowflake - 2.11.0-1.7: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: snowflake from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Pluggable Transport using WebRTC, inspired by Flashproxy. | https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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
