# Install rkflashtool with Homebrew, apt, Nix

Tools for flashing Rockchip devices. Version 6.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install rkflashtool.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:rkflashtool
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install rkflashtool
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install rkflashtool
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#rkflashtool
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:rkflashtool
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 6.1
- **Source summary:** Tools for flashing Rockchip devices
- **Homepage:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/rkflashtool/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- rkcrc (alias)
- rkflashtool (alias)
- rkmisc (alias)
- rkpad (alias)
- rkparameters (alias)
- rkparametersblock (alias)
- rkunpack (alias)
- rkunsign (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 6.1

## 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 - rkflashtool - 0~20160324-2+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: rkflashtool from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tools for flashing Rockchip devices | https://github.com/linux-rockchip/rkflashtool
- Nix - rkflashtool: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/rk/rkflashtool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - rkflashtool - 0~20160324-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: rkflashtool from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tools for flashing Rockchip devices | https://github.com/linux-rockchip/rkflashtool


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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