# Install trzsz-ssh with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Highly OpenSSH-compatible client with extended features. Version 0.1.26 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#trzsz-ssh.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:trzsz-ssh
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install trzsz-ssh
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#trzsz-ssh
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/tssh
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id trzsz.tssh -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:trzsz-ssh
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.26
- **Source summary:** Highly OpenSSH-compatible client with extended features
- **Homepage:** <https://trzsz.github.io/tssh>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-ssh>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T04:17:32Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- tssh (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.26
## Project history and usage

trzsz-ssh, commonly invoked as tssh, is an OpenSSH-compatible SSH client with extra terminal-workflow features. Official docs describe it as preserving familiar OpenSSH behavior while adding login prompts, batch login, password handling, automated interaction, trzsz and zmodem transfers, reconnect mode, UDP mode, and related conveniences.

### Project history

tssh grew inside the trzsz ecosystem as the recommended local-side client for trz/tsz transfers. The project pairs SSH compatibility with terminal file transfer so users do not need a terminal emulator-specific plugin to make trzsz work.

### Adoption history

Official install docs note a naming split that packagers care about: the package is named `trzsz-ssh` in Homebrew but usually `tssh` elsewhere. The README and docs list Windows package managers, Homebrew, apt, Debian repository setup, dnf, yum, Arch AUR, and GitHub releases, while GitHub shows a larger star count than the lower-level trzsz repositories.

### How it is used

Users run tssh as a drop-in SSH client, expecting common OpenSSH flags and config directives to work. The extra value is in interactive server selection, remembered passwords, automated login flows, integrated trzsz and rz/sz transfer support, clipboard and Wayland integration, reconnect behavior, and UDP-style network resilience.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, tssh is the more user-facing package in the trzsz family: it bundles protocol integration with a replacement SSH client and forces maintainers to map one upstream project to different package names across ecosystems. It also shows how terminal file-transfer utilities have moved from emulator plug-ins toward standalone cross-platform binaries.

### Timeline

- 2026: v0.1.25 added UDP port forwarding, foreground reconnect mode, external password-manager directives, security-key support, and additional OpenSSH compatibility work.
- 2026: A later development build added multiplexing master-mode support on the main branch.
- 2026: Official docs continue to recommend tssh as the local client for trzsz workflows.

### Related projects

- tssh is tightly related to trzsz-go and the original trzsz tools, providing the local SSH client path for their transfers.
- The official site also relates it to tsshd, a UDP-based SSH server with roaming and reconnect support.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-ssh#readme>
- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-ssh/releases>
- <https://trzsz.github.io/>
- <https://trzsz.github.io/tssh>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

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

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


## 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

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tssh/tssh.conf, ~/.tssh.conf, ~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/password
- Windows: C:\Users\your_name\.tssh.conf, C:\Users\your_name\.ssh\config, C:\Users\your_name\.ssh\password

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/password
- Windows: C:\Users\your_name\.ssh\config, C:\Users\your_name\.ssh\password
## Other Package-Manager Records

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph