# gambit mit Homebrew, apk, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gambit in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gambit
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gambit
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add gambit
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gambit from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gambit
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: gambit from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gambit
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 16.7.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Software tools for game theory
- **Homepage:** <https://www.gambit-project.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-28T13:41:31+09:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gambit (Alias)
- gambit-convert (Alias)
- gambit-enummixed (Alias)
- gambit-enumpoly (Alias)
- gambit-enumpure (Alias)
- gambit-gnm (Alias)
- gambit-ipa (Alias)
- gambit-lcp (Alias)
- gambit-liap (Alias)
- gambit-logit (Alias)
- gambit-lp (Alias)
- gambit-simpdiv (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 16.7.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Gambit is an open-source package for computation in game theory, covering construction, analysis, storage, and equilibrium computation for finite non-cooperative games in extensive or strategic form.

### Projektgeschichte

The official history traces Gambit to game-analysis programs written by Richard McKelvey at Caltech in the mid-1980s. It began in BASIC, moved to C and the Borland Graphics Interface around 1990, and was publicly distributed as version 0.13 in 1991 and 1992.

Between 1994 and 1996, Gambit became a fuller package under National Science Foundation support, with Andrew McLennan involved and Theodore Turocy joining as principal developer. The project was rewritten in C++, became cross-platform, and used wxWidgets for its graphical interface.

Later development added and reorganized interfaces around command-line tools, a graphical application, and PyGambit, the Python API. The project records Google Summer of Code participation in 2011 and 2012, support for Game Theory Explorer, Action Graph Games contributions, and current core support from the Alan Turing Institute since 2023.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Gambit has an academic adoption path: it is cited as a package for game-theoretic computation, appears in game-theory research, and exposes standard formats for storing and communicating games with external tools.

The current documentation presents three user-facing surfaces: a Python API for programmatic use, a GUI for constructing and inspecting games, and command-line tools for scripting and integration. The input package facts show it packaged in Homebrew, Alpine, and Nix.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users model games in extensive or strategic form, compute pure and mixed-strategy Nash equilibria, fit quantal-response and related models, and exchange games through Gambit's file formats. Command-line programs such as gambit-enumpure, gambit-enummixed, gambit-lcp, gambit-logit, and gambit-convert support scripted workflows.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Gambit matters to package maintainers because it combines a scientific C++ codebase, a GUI, a Python API, and many small CLI tools under one package name. It is the sort of domain package where executable naming, Python bindings, and long-lived academic release history all matter.

### Zeitleiste

- Mid-1980s: Origins in game-analysis programs at Caltech.
- 1991: Public distribution as version 0.13 began.
- 1994: Version 0.94 released.
- 1999: Version 0.96 released.
- 2002: Version 0.97 released; Turocy became project lead.
- 2011: GitHub repository created and Google Summer of Code participation began.
- 2023: Rahul Savani joined as co-lead and Alan Turing Institute core support began.
- 2026: Version 16.6.0 released on GitHub.

### Related projects

- PyGambit provides the Python API.
- Game Theory Explorer is a related browser-based game construction and solving tool supported by Gambit development.
- GTDraw is linked from the official project site as a related tool.
- wxWidgets was used for Gambit's cross-platform graphical interface.

### Quellen

- <https://gambitproject.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
- <https://gambitproject.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tools.html>
- <https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit/releases>
- <https://www.gambit-project.org/>
- <https://www.gambit-project.org/history/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - gambit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: gambit from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- apk - gambit - 4.9.5-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gambit from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Portable and efficient implementation of the Scheme language | https://gambitscheme.org/
- apk - gambit-dev - 4.9.5-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gambit-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Portable and efficient implementation of the Scheme language (development files) | https://gambitscheme.org/
- apk - gambit-doc - 4.9.5-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gambit-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Portable and efficient implementation of the Scheme language (documentation) | https://gambitscheme.org/


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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