# unnethack mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:unnethack
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install unnethack
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#unnethack
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:unnethack
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.3.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Fork of Nethack
- **Homepage:** <https://unnethack.wordpress.com/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-10T10:41:25-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- unnethack (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 5.3.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

UnNetHack is a terminal roguelike and NetHack variant. Its upstream README describes it as a fork originally based on NetHack 3.4.3, with more randomness, more levels, more challenges, and a development style intended to feel like NetHack had continued releasing as a modern open source project.

### Projektgeschichte

The project belongs to the long NetHack variant tradition rather than to a standalone game lineage. Its earliest tagged base in the repository is NetHack 3.4.3, and the UnNetHack changelog records UnNetHack 3.5.1 on 2009-06-13 with new Sokoban, Medusa, Castle, bigroom, Blackmarket, and other variant levels, plus borrowed patches from the wider roguelike ecosystem.

Later releases continued that model of curating NetHack community ideas. The changelog records UnNetHack 4.0.0 in 2012, 5.1.0 in 2013, and 5.2.0 in 2019, with work on reproducible dungeon layouts, UTF-8 terminal graphics, status indicators, xlogfile support, and many imported or adapted ideas from NetHack 3.6, xNetHack, dNetHack, EvilHack, Slash'EM, SporkHack, and other variants.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The official README points users to the project page, development blog, public servers, source repository, IRC, Reddit, and the rec.games.roguelike.nethack Usenet group, which places adoption in the traditional NetHack community channels rather than in a commercial release channel.

The supplied package metadata records distribution through Homebrew and Nix. For package-manager users, that makes UnNetHack a packaged way to install a community-maintained NetHack fork without building the large historic C codebase by hand.

### Wie es verwendet wird

UnNetHack is used like other NetHack-family terminal games: users install the `unnethack` executable and play locally in a terminal or on public servers. Its changelog highlights TTY and curses UI work, UTF-8 graphics, xlogfile fields, dump logs, and seed support, all features that matter to players who run games locally, script reproducible games, or host shared roguelike servers.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, UnNetHack is a neat example of a packaged game fork whose value is not a new engine but a maintained variant rule set and a curated patch set. It also exercises classic Unix packaging concerns: terminal UI, reproducible builds, generated configuration defaults, save files, public-server compatibility, and a source tree descended from historic NetHack.

### Zeitleiste

- 2003: Repository includes the NetHack 3.4.3 base tag.
- 2009: UnNetHack 3.5.1 appears in the upstream changelog with new variant levels and community patches.
- 2012: UnNetHack 4.0.0 is recorded in the upstream changelog.
- 2013: UnNetHack 5.1.0 is recorded in the upstream changelog.
- 2019: UnNetHack 5.2.0 adds reproducible dungeon layout support and UTF-8 terminal defaults.

### Related projects

- NetHack is the upstream base. The UnNetHack changelog also names other related NetHack variants and patch sources including Slash'EM, SporkHack, xNetHack, dNetHack, EvilHack, AceHack, NH4, and GruntHack.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/ChangeLog>
- <https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/README>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - unnethack: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/un/unnethack/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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