# Installer prover9 avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de prover9 pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:prover9
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install prover9
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#prover9
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pr/prover9/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:prover9
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2009-11A
- **Résumé source:** Automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/prover9/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- mace4 (alias)
- prover9 (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2009-11A
## Historique du projet et usages

Prover9 is a resolution/paramodulation automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic. It is paired with Mace4, a finite-model and counterexample finder, and both are built on William McCune's LADR library.

### Historique du projet

Prover9 succeeded McCune's Otter prover and continued the Argonne automated-deduction line associated with Otter, EQP, Mace4, and LADR. The official 2009 manual presents Prover9 as the current Prover9/Mace4 release line at that time, while the 2026 site describes LADR-2026 as a backward-compatible modernization by Jeffrey P. Machado and Larry Lesyna.

### Historique d'adoption

The package has remained useful enough for Unix package managers to carry the 2009-11A release: Homebrew lists a `prover9` formula for macOS and Linux, and the input metadata also records Nix packaging. The 2026 project site recommends LADR-2026 for Prover9 and Mace4 users while preserving old input compatibility.

### Modes d'utilisation

Command-line users provide one or more Prover9 input files containing formula lists, clauses, goals, options, and related objects; the manual's basic example runs `prover9 -f subset_trans.in > subset_trans.out`. Mace4 is commonly used alongside Prover9 to search for finite counterexamples before or during proof search.

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

For package-manager users, Prover9 is a small but historically important automated-reasoning tool: it exposes classic theorem-proving workflows as CLI programs, ships with related utilities such as Mace4 and Prooftrans, and represents the long-lived LADR codebase in reproducible Unix package collections.

### Chronologie

- 2009: Prover9/Mace4 2009-11A manual and examples are published as the current older release.
- 2026-03: The UNM page announces LADR-2026 as a substantially revised, backward-compatible Prover9 and Mace4 version.
- 2026-05: The official GitHub repository lists LADR 2026-5B as the latest release.

### Related projects

- Mace4 searches for finite models and counterexamples for the same kinds of first-order and equational statements Prover9 accepts.
- Otter is the earlier theorem prover that Prover9 succeeded.
- Prooftrans is bundled with Prover9 to transform proofs into alternate forms, including more detailed or XML output.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/prover9>
- <https://prover9.org/>
- <https://prover9.org/manual-2026/>
- <https://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/prover9/>
- <https://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/prover9/manual/2009-11A/input.html>
- input_path source_facts.package-manager


## 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

- Nix - prover9: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pr/prover9/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/prover9.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/prover9.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