# Install recoverjpeg with Homebrew, apt, Nix

Tool to recover JPEG images from a file system image. Version 2.6.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install recoverjpeg.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:recoverjpeg
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install recoverjpeg
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install recoverjpeg
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#recoverjpeg
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:recoverjpeg
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.6.3
- **Source summary:** Tool to recover JPEG images from a file system image
- **Homepage:** <https://rfc1149.net/devel/recoverjpeg.html>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- recoverjpeg (alias)
- recovermov (alias)
- remove-duplicates (alias)
- sort-pictures (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.6.3

## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - recoverjpeg - 2.6.3-5: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: recoverjpeg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies | https://www.rfc1149.net/devel/recoverjpeg
- Nix - recoverjpeg: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/re/recoverjpeg/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - recoverjpeg - 2.6.3-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: recoverjpeg from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies | https://www.rfc1149.net/devel/recoverjpeg


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph