# Install vampire with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix High-performance theorem prover. Version 5.0.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#vampire. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:vampire ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install vampire ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install vampire ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: math/vampire/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#vampire ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/va/vampire/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:vampire - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 5.0.1 - **Source summary:** High-performance theorem prover - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-3-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - vampire (cli) - vampire (alias) ## Build dependencies - cmake ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-04 - Package-manager version: 5.0.1 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/vprover/vampire - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage Vampire is a high-performance automated theorem prover whose lineage goes back to Andrei Voronkov's theorem-proving work in Novosibirsk around 1990 and an earlier Lisp predecessor called Drakosha. The Vampire project itself began at Uppsala University in 1994 after Voronkov's visit to Bull Research Lab. Its first C++ incarnation was used for experiments with code trees and early competition work against SETHEO. ### Project history The second major incarnation appeared in Uppsala and then moved to the University of Manchester, developed from 1998 by Voronkov and Alexandre Riazanov and later maintained by Voronkov. The project history says this line of Vampire began winning CASC competitions in 1999. A third reincarnation started in 2008 with Kryštof Hoder, reusing some preprocessing code but rewriting the resolution and superposition engine; the 2009 competition version combined second- and third-generation components through scripts named Dracula and Drakosha. From 2014, a broader team took over active development, with important contributions in program analysis, interpolation, and symbol elimination from Laura Kovacs and later work centered around Manchester, Vienna, and other automated-reasoning groups. ### Adoption history Competition history is central to Vampire's reputation. The official trophy page says Vampire has won at least one division of CASC, the world cup in theorem proving, since 1999, and as of the March 2026 update had won 78 titles, more than any other prover. In 2025 it achieved a CASC clean sweep, winning all eight theorem-proving divisions that year. That record explains why Vampire is packaged not as a general developer utility but as a specialized science/formal-methods tool: it is a benchmark-grade prover used by researchers and verification systems that need aggressive saturation-based reasoning. ### How it is used Vampire's niche is first-order automated theorem proving, but its feature set has expanded beyond pure theorem proving. The project site describes support for disproving non-theorems, finite model building, combinations of theories such as arithmetic, arrays, and datatypes, SMT-LIB input, portfolio and multicore modes, proof output, finite models, and increasing higher-order and inductive reasoning support. In package usage, users typically invoke the `vampire` binary on TPTP or SMT-LIB problems, tune modes such as CASC-style strategy selection, and integrate it into verification, formal methods, knowledge representation, or theorem-proving research workflows. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for vampire. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** vampire - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - vampire: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/va/vampire/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - MacPorts - vampire: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: math/vampire/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Scientific computing packages](https://pkg.so/scientific-computing-tools/) - Matched scientific computing metadata. - [cmake](https://pkg.so/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [acl2](https://pkg.so/brew/acl2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, logic, science, theorem-prover. - [prover9](https://pkg.so/brew/prover9/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: automated-reasoning, cli, logic, science, theorem-prover. - [eprover](https://pkg.so/brew/eprover/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: automated-reasoning, cli, science, theorem-prover. - [z3](https://pkg.so/brew/z3/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, science, theorem-prover. - [rocq](https://pkg.so/brew/rocq/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, science, theorem-prover. - [numpy](https://pkg.so/brew/numpy/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, science. - [gts](https://pkg.so/brew/gts/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, science. - [jupyterlab](https://pkg.so/brew/jupyterlab/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, science. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vampire.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vampire.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph