# Install pktanon with Homebrew, apt

Packet trace anonymization. Version 1.4.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install pktanon.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:pktanon
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install pktanon
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install pktanon
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: pktanon from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:pktanon
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.0
- **Source summary:** Packet trace anonymization
- **Homepage:** <https://www.tm.kit.edu/software/pktanon/index.html>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- pktanon (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.4.0
## Project history and usage

PktAnon is a KIT Institute of Telematics tool for anonymizing packet traces using configurable XML anonymization profiles.

### Project history

The official site shows development releases from 1.2.0-dev in March 2008 through 1.4.0-dev in September 2011, with the manual completed in June 2008.

### Adoption history

Official news notes FreeBSD ports availability in March 2009, while the input package facts show later packaging in Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu.

### How it is used

PktAnon is run as a command-line tool with a single profile filename argument; the manual describes XML profiles that specify input/output flow, checksum behavior, and protocol-field anonymization mappings.

### Why package nerds care

PktAnon is interesting to package maintainers because it is a small research-oriented networking utility with Boost and Xerces dependencies, profile examples, and distribution-era portability notes for Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD.

### Timeline

- 2008: PktAnon 1.2.0-dev released.
- 2008: Manual completed with extension documentation.
- 2009: FreeBSD ports availability announced.
- 2011: PktAnon 1.4.0-dev released with VLAN tag support.

### Related projects

- The manual references tcpdump traces, CryptoPan-style prefix-preserving anonymization, Boost, and Xerces-C.

### Sources

- <https://www.tm.kit.edu/software/pktanon/documentation/index.html>
- <https://www.tm.kit.edu/software/pktanon/documentation/manual/pdf/PktAnon_Manual.pdf>
- <https://www.tm.kit.edu/software/pktanon/download/index.html>
- <https://www.tm.kit.edu/software/pktanon/index.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - pktanon - 2~git20160407.0.2bde4f2+dfsg-12+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: pktanon from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | profile-based traffic anonymizer | https://github.com/KIT-Telematics/pktanon
- Ubuntu apt - pktanon - 2~git20160407.0.2bde4f2+dfsg-12build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: pktanon from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | profile-based traffic anonymizer | https://github.com/KIT-Telematics/pktanon


## Combined YAML source

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