# Install chsrc with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Change Source for every software on every platform from the command-line. Version 0.2.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#chsrc.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chsrc
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chsrc
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#chsrc
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/chsrc
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id RubyMetric.chsrc -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: RubyMetric.chsrc from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chsrc
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.6
- **Source summary:** Change Source for every software on every platform from the command-line
- **Homepage:** <https://chsrc.run/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/RubyMetric/chsrc>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T06:48:41Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- chsrc (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.2.6
## Project history and usage

chsrc is a cross-platform command-line tool and framework for switching software download and package sources, aimed especially at environments where mirror choice affects install speed or reachability.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in September 2023, and the README describes the project as a C11-based tool intended to avoid forcing users to install a large interpreted-language runtime just to change sources. Its docs frame chsrc as both a CLI and a recipe-oriented source-switching framework.

### Adoption history

The upstream README documents packaging through Homebrew, Scoop, WinGet, and AUR, while the batch input also records Nix packaging. The README says the tool supports more than 65 source-changing targets, which gives it a broader scope than one-off mirror-switch scripts.

### How it is used

Typical use is to list supported targets and mirrors, measure mirror speed, set a target to the fastest or selected mirror, inspect the current source, or reset a target to its upstream default. The README shows package-manager installation plus curl-based installers for POSIX and Windows systems.

### Why package nerds care

chsrc matters to package-manager users because it treats mirror selection as a repeatable CLI workflow across many ecosystems rather than as hand-edited per-tool configuration. Its package-manager distribution also makes it a meta-package-management utility: a package installed by package managers to reconfigure package sources.

### Timeline

- 2023: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2024: Pre-release binaries published on GitHub Releases.
- 2025: v0.2.0 and later releases continued the packaged CLI line.
- 2026: Homebrew formula tracks v0.2.5.

### Related projects

- The README references chsrc-bootstrap for platforms without prebuilt binaries and describes recipes as the way contributors add new source-changing targets.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/RubyMetric/chsrc>
- <https://github.com/RubyMetric/chsrc#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/RubyMetric/chsrc>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/RubyMetric/chsrc/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/chsrc.json>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

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


## Combined YAML source

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