---
title: Install CyberChef on Ubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of CyberChef for on Ubuntu - The Cyber Swiss Army
  Knife for encryption, encoding, compression and analysis.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/cyberchef/ubuntu
---

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# Install CyberChef on **Ubuntu**

# CyberChef

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/cyberchef/ubuntu#install)

#### The Cyber Swiss Army Knife for encryption, encoding, compression and analysis.

**CyberChef** is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of "cyber" operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR and Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, changing character encodings, and much more.

The tool is designed to enable both technical and non-technical analysts to manipulate data in complex ways without having to deal with complex tools or algorithms. It was conceived, designed, built and incrementally improved by an analyst in their 10% innovation time over several years.

Installation: `sudo snap install cyberchef`

How to use: <https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef#how-it-works>

Issues: <https://github.com/JitPatro/CyberChef-Snap/issues>

### Package name

* cyberchef

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### License

* GPL-3.0+

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### Last updated

* 18 May 2024 - latest/stable
* 17 September 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [github.com/gchq/CyberChef](https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef "https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef")

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### Contact

* [jitendrapatro.me](https://jitendrapatro.me "https://jitendrapatro.me")

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### Source code

* [github.com/gchq/CyberChef.git](https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef.git "https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef.git")

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* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/cyberchef/ubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install CyberChef

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://www.ubuntu.com/) or later, including [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features) and [Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include *snap* by default, *snap* can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for *snapd*.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install CyberChef

To install CyberChef, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install cyberchef
```

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