Grype

Installing Grype

Official builds

The Anchore OSS team publish official source archives and binary builds of Grype for Linux, macOS and Windows. There are also numerous community-maintained builds of the tools for different platforms.

Installer script

Grype binaries are provided for Linux, macOS and Windows.

curl -sSfL https://get.anchore.io/grype | sudo sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin

Install script options:

  • -b: Specify a custom installation directory (defaults to ./bin)
  • -d: More verbose logging levels (-d for debug, -dd for trace)
  • -v: Verify the signature of the downloaded artifact before installation (requires cosign to be installed)

Updating Grype

Grype checks for new versions on launch. It will print a message at the end of the output if the version in use is not the latest.

A newer version of grype is available for download: 0.92.0 (installed version is 0.91.2)

Docker container

docker pull anchore/grype

GitHub releases

  • Download the file for your operating system and architecture from the GitHub releases page
  • In the case of .deb or .rpm, install them using your package manager
  • For compressed archives, unpack the file, and copy the grype binary to a folder in your path such as /usr/local/bin

Community builds of Grype

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S grype-bin

Homebrew

brew tap anchore/grype
brew install grype

MacPorts

sudo port install grype

NuGet

nuget install Anchore.Grype

Snapcraft

snap install grype
Last modified October 10, 2025: fix reference links (1594d93)