# Install hostile with npm

Simple /etc/hosts manipulation. Version 1.4.0 via npm; verified 2024-01-12.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:hostile
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g hostile
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:hostile
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/hostile>
- **Version:** 1.4.0
- **Source summary:** Simple /etc/hosts manipulation
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/feross/hostile>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/feross/hostile>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/feross/hostile>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/hostile/-/hostile-1.4.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/feross/hostile/issues>
- **Published:** 2024-01-12T16:46:23.135Z
- **Last updated:** 2024-01-12T16:46:23.135Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- hostile (cli)
- hostile (alias)

## Dependencies

- @ljharb/through
- chalk
- minimist
- once
- split

## Build dependencies

- standard
- tape

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 1.4.0
- Package-manager updated: 2024-01-12
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/feross/hostile
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for hostile. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 1.4.0
- **Version Count:** 24
- **Maintainers:** feross
- **Author:** Feross Aboukhadijeh
- **Publisher:** feross
- **Integrity:** sha512-q5eniv6NnjeQ2S1Wh3/knyl4UE2FAQ9xz7yT0f6y5FK2j3fFHBI2jyaUVwAiAU20G6LQMAkRGM1WbTMXoeUwMg==
- **Shasum:** 7752fc7c89401e9f53fab719318d5408a9acfd09
- **Unpacked Size:** 14,524
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-07-18T01:51:57.375Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2024-01-12T16:46:23.135Z
- **Modified At:** 2024-01-12T16:46:23.338Z


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [hostess](https://pkg.so/brew/hostess/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, etc, file, hosts, hosts-file.
- [dotenv-mono](https://pkg.so/npm/dotenv-mono/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, file, manipulation, minimist, system.
- [find-process](https://pkg.so/npm/find-process/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chalk, cli, etc, management, system.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph