macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
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Install gnunet with Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, zypper
Framework for distributed, secure and privacy-preserving applications. Version 0.28.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-17. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install gnunet.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add gnunetAlpine Linux edge package indexes · gnunet · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install gnunetDebian stable package indexes · gnunet · source: deb.debian.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#gnunetnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gn/gnunet/package.nix · source: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install gnunetopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · gnunet · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Framework for distributed, secure and privacy-preserving applications
Project links
Commands and aliases
- gnunet-abd
- gnunet-arm
- gnunet-auto-share
- gnunet-base32
- gnunet-bugreport
- gnunet-cadet
- gnunet-config
- gnunet-core
- gnunet-datastore
- gnunet-dht-get
- gnunet-dht-hello
- gnunet-dht-monitor
- gnunet-dht-put
- gnunet-did
- gnunet-directory
- gnunet-download
- gnunet-ecc
- gnunet-fs
- gnunet-gns
- gnunet-gns-proxy-setup-ca
- gnunet-hello
- gnunet-identity
- gnunet-messenger
- gnunet-namecache
- gnunet-namestore
- gnunet-namestore-dbtool
- gnunet-namestore-zonefile
- gnunet-nat
- gnunet-nat-auto
- gnunet-nat-server
- gnunet-nse
- gnunet-pils
history
Project history and usage
GNUnet is GNU's framework for decentralized, secure and privacy-preserving networking, built as a collection of services and command-line tools rather than a single end-user program.
Project history
The GNUnet documentation traces the project to 2001, when ideas for changing Freenet's file-sharing design proved too large for that project. The first release used the name GNet while the maintainers sought GNU approval; after adopting GNU governance, it became an official GNU package.
The system broadened from anonymous file sharing into a modular network stack. Early work produced GNU libextractor, then pluggable transports in 2003, peer-to-peer chat in 2005, GNU libmicrohttpd support for HTTP transport in 2007, and a multi-process architecture in 2009.
Research work from 2009 to 2014 produced major GNUnet subsystems including R5N DHT, CADET, ATS and the GNU Name System. Later projects such as secushare, GNU Taler, pEp metadata protection and Taler Systems helped keep GNUnet tied to privacy-preserving application research.
Adoption history
GNUnet's adoption has been strongest in free-software, privacy, peer-to-peer networking and academic research circles. Its own history notes that most contributions came from volunteers or people funded to do fundamental research, and that it remained an experimental system with known design and implementation limits.
How it is used
Practitioners use GNUnet by running a peer with gnunet-arm, configuring services in gnunet.conf and enabling selected subsystems such as file sharing, DHT operations, GNS naming, VPN support, messaging or testbed tooling. Advanced deployments separate per-user and system services and may run a dedicated gnunet account.
Why package nerds care
For package users, GNUnet is interesting because the formula installs a dense toolkit of subsystem commands rather than a single daemon. It is the kind of package used to experiment with alternative network protocols, service supervision, DHT behavior, decentralized naming and privacy-preserving application plumbing.
Timeline
- 2001: Project started from ideas that exceeded Freenet's file-sharing scope.
- 2001: The first release used the name GNet before GNUnet joined GNU governance.
- 2003: Pluggable transports appeared, starting with TCP, UDP and SMTP.
- 2005: The project began moving beyond file sharing with a simple P2P chat.
- 2009: GNUnet was modularized into a multi-process architecture.
- 2010: secushare selected GNUnet as its networking basis.
- 2013: GNU Taler was launched from the GNUnet community.
- 2015: pEp announced GNUnet use for a metadata-protection layer.
- 2016: Taler Systems SA was founded using GNUnet technology.
Related projects
- GNUnet is related to Freenet by origin, to GNU libextractor and GNU libmicrohttpd by project history, and to GNU Taler, secushare and pEp through later application work.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:download,server
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/gnunet.conf$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnunet.conf/etc/gnunet.conf
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
gnunet-abd | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-arm | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-auto-share | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-base32 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-bugreport | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-cadet | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-config | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-core | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-datastore | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-dht-get | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-dht-hello | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-dht-monitor | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-dht-put | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-did | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-directory | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-download | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-ecc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-fs | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-gns | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-gns-proxy-setup-ca | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-hello | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-identity | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-messenger | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-namecache | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-namestore | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-namestore-dbtool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-namestore-zonefile | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-nat | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-nat-auto | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-nat-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-nse | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-pils | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-publish | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-reclaim | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-regex | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-resolver | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-revocation | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-rps | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-scalarproduct | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-scrypt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-search | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-statistics | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-testbed | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-testing-netjail-launcher | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-transport-certificate-creation | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-unindex | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-uri | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-vpn | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
gnunet-zoneimport | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.28.0
manager updated2026-07-17
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:gnunet |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.28.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://gnunet.org/ |
| Last updated | 2026-07-17T21:56:28Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
gnunet 0.20.0-7
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking
sudo apt install gnunet- Section: net
- Architecture: amd64
- 25 dependencies
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Debian apt95%
gnunet-dev 0.20.0-7
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (transitional package)
sudo apt install gnunet-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: gnunet
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Debian apt95%
libgnunet-dev 0.20.0-7
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (development)
sudo apt install libgnunet-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Debian apt95%
libgnunet0.20t64 0.20.0-7
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (libraries)
sudo apt install libgnunet0.20t64- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 11 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Nix95%
gnunet
nix profile install nixpkgs#gnunet- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Ubuntu apt95%
gnunet 0.20.0-4.1build3
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking
sudo apt install gnunet- Section: universe/net
- Architecture: amd64
- 25 dependencies
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Ubuntu apt95%
gnunet-dev 0.20.0-4.1build3
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (transitional package)
sudo apt install gnunet-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: gnunet
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Ubuntu apt95%
libgnunet-dev 0.20.0-4.1build3
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (development)
sudo apt install libgnunet-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 5 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
Ubuntu apt95%
libgnunet0.20t64 0.20.0-4.1build3
GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking (libraries)
sudo apt install libgnunet0.20t64- Section: universe/libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 11 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
apk95%
gnunet 0.28.0-r0
A framework for secure and privacy enhancing peer-to-peer networking
sudo apk add gnunet- License: AGPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
apk95%
gnunet-dev 0.28.0-r0
A framework for secure and privacy enhancing peer-to-peer networking (development files)
sudo apk add gnunet-dev- License: AGPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
apk95%
gnunet-doc 0.28.0-r0
A framework for secure and privacy enhancing peer-to-peer networking (documentation)
sudo apk add gnunet-doc- License: AGPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
apk95%
gnunet-lang 0.28.0-r0
Languages for package gnunet
sudo apk add gnunet-lang- License: AGPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
apk95%
gnunet-openrc 0.28.0-r0
A framework for secure and privacy enhancing peer-to-peer networking (OpenRC init scripts)
sudo apk add gnunet-openrc- License: AGPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
zypper95%
gnunet 0.26.2-1.5
Security focused Peer-to-Peer Framework
sudo zypper install gnunet- License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Category: Productivity/Networking/File-Sharing
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 32 dependencies
- 32 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
zypper95%
gnunet-devel 0.26.2-1.5
Security focused Peer-to-Peer Framework
sudo zypper install gnunet-devel- License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gnunet
- 32 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gnunet
source trail
Generated from repository data
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation