# ninvaders mit Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ninvaders
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ninvaders
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install ninvaders
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: ninvaders from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ninvaders
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ni/ninvaders/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install ninvaders
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ninvaders from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ninvaders
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Space Invaders in the terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- nInvaders (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.1.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

nInvaders is a tiny ncurses Space Invaders clone for terminals. Its historical value is not ecosystem influence but preservation of a classic early-2000s Unix package genre: small C games that run over text terminals and survive because distributions keep them packaged.

### Projektgeschichte

The Debian man page credits Thomas Dettbarn as the program author, says the program is GPL, and dates the manual page to July 21, 2002. The SourceForge homepage points users to CVS snapshots and beta testing, and its news section records nInvaders 0.1.1 on May 8, 2003, after the 0.0.10 release on April 8, 2003.

The 0.1.1 SourceForge news entry says that release added a timer, made the game playable under IRIX, Windows, and some Red Hat versions, added a title screen, and fixed a freeze when shooting the last alien. The package has not grown into an actively evolving game platform; it is a finished little terminal toy.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

nInvaders persists through package managers rather than an active upstream community. Debian still publishes a man page for package versions in unstable/testing, Homebrew bottles it for macOS and Linux, and SourceForge still hosts the old tarballs.

On 2026-07-01, Homebrew listed nInvaders 0.1.1 with 524 installs over 365 days, while SourceForge listed the 0.1.1 folder with 107 weekly downloads. Those numbers are small, but for a 2003 terminal game they show durable curiosity and packaging inertia.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Usage is intentionally simple: run `nInvaders`, move with the left and right arrow keys, shoot with space, and optionally set a starting skill level with `-l`. Debian's manual describes it as ASCII-art Space Invaders using ncurses, playable anywhere a terminal can render it.

For package nerds it is useful as a smoke-test/fun package: ncurses, terminal input, simple build system, old upstream tarball, and a binary whose behavior is immediately visible.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

nInvaders is a good enrichment record precisely because it is niche. It represents the long tail of package databases: not strategically important, but culturally recognizable, easy to install, and stable enough that distros can keep carrying it almost unchanged.

### Zeitleiste

- {'date': '2002-07-21', 'event': 'Debian manual page dated; credits Thomas Dettbarn as program author.'}
- {'date': '2003-04-08', 'event': 'SourceForge file listing records nInvaders 0.0.10.'}
- {'date': '2003-05-08', 'event': 'nInvaders 0.1.1 released on SourceForge.'}

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ninvaders>
- <https://github.com/TheZ3ro/ninvaders>
- <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/ninvaders/ninvaders.6.en.html>
- <https://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ninvaders/files/ninvaders/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - ninvaders - 0.1.1-5+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ninvaders from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | A space invaders-like game using ncurses
- Nix - ninvaders: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ni/ninvaders/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - ninvaders - 0.1.1-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ninvaders from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | A space invaders-like game using ncurses
- zypper - ninvaders - 0.1.1-4.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ninvaders from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A space invaders-like game using ncurses | http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/


## Combined YAML source

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