# Install fakesteak with Homebrew

ASCII Matrix-like steak demo. Version 0.2.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:fakesteak
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fakesteak
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:fakesteak
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.4
- **Source summary:** ASCII Matrix-like steak demo
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/domsson/fakesteak>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/domsson/fakesteak>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fakesteak (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.2.4
## Project history and usage

fakesteak is a small C terminal demo that recreates Matrix-style digital rain with a focus on low CPU, low RAM, and no ncurses dependency.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in November 2020. The README describes the project as the author's take on digital character rain from The Matrix, with basic command-line customization and public-domain licensing.

### Adoption history

The README points to package availability status and compares fakesteak with other terminal rain programs. Its package-manager appeal is narrow but real: it is a tiny buildable terminal toy with no runtime library dependency beyond a capable Unix-like terminal.

### How it is used

Users build with make, run bin/fakesteak or install it system-wide, and adjust density, glitch ratio, seed, speed, background color, and version/help output through command-line options.

### Why package nerds care

fakesteak is mostly significant as a minimalist terminal-demo package: small C source, no ncurses, documented resource comparisons, and a single command that is easy for package repositories to expose.

### Timeline

- 2020-11: The GitHub repository is created.
- 2020-11: v0.2.4 is published on GitHub releases.

### Related projects

- The README compares fakesteak with cmatrix, tmatrix, unimatrix, cxxmatrix, rusty-rain, and neo.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/domsson/fakesteak>
- <https://github.com/domsson/fakesteak#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/domsson/fakesteak>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/domsson/fakesteak/releases?per_page=5>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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