# Installer ninvaders avec Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de ninvaders pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

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

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ninvaders
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install ninvaders
```

  Preuve: 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
```

  Preuve: 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
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:ninvaders
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Résumé source:** Space Invaders in the terminal
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- nInvaders (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.1.1
## Historique du projet et usages

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.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

### Chronologie

- {'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.'}

### Sources

- <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/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- 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)


## Sources

- 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