# Install freedink with Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, winget
Portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. Version 109.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install freedink.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:freedink
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install freedink
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install freedink
```
Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: games/freedink/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install freedink
```
Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: freedink from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install freedink
```
Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: freedink from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#freedink
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fr/freedink/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Windows
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id Pranav435.Dink -e
```
Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Pranav435.Dink from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:freedink
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 109.6
- **Source summary:** Portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine
- **Homepage:**
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T16:35:33+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- dink (alias)
- dinkedit (alias)
- freedink (alias)
- freedinkedit (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 109.6
## Project history and usage
GNU FreeDink is the GNU portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. It packages a classic adventure/RPG engine, editor tools, and runtime commands for systems where users expect old free games to build and run from source or from a package manager.
### Project history
The GNU project page presents FreeDink as a portable Dink Smallwood engine rather than a new game universe. Its role is preservation and portability: keeping the engine and editor usable on free software systems while pointing users to the GNU documentation and Savannah source-control area.
### Adoption history
GNU FreeDink entered the normal GNU distribution channel and appears in several package managers. The supplied package facts list Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Ubuntu, and winget entries, showing a small but durable packaging footprint for a niche game engine.
### How it is used
Users run freedink or dink to play compatible Dink Smallwood content and freedinkedit or dinkedit to use the editor. Packaging usually focuses on making the SDL-based engine, data lookup paths, and desktop/game integration work without requiring users to build old game code manually.
### Why package nerds care
FreeDink is a package-nerd preservation case: a legacy game engine carried through GNU release infrastructure, source control, and distribution recipes. It is small compared with modern game engines, but interesting because packages must bridge classic game assumptions with current filesystem, SDL, and launcher conventions.
### Timeline
- 2008: GNU FTP lists early freedink 1.08 source releases.
- 2010: Multiple 1.08 dated releases appeared in the GNU archive.
- 2012: GNU archive entries include later 1.08 dated and 108.x releases.
- 2020s: Distribution packages continue to ship FreeDink as a niche free game engine.
### Related projects
- FreeDink is directly related to Dink Smallwood and to GNU's wider collection of free software games and game engines. Its Savannah CVS page is the official source-control surface named by current curation.
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## Security Notes
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Debian apt - freedink - 109.6-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: freedink from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- Debian apt - freedink-engine - 109.6-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: freedink-engine from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game (engine) | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- Nix - freedink: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fr/freedink/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - freedink - 109.6-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: freedink from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- Ubuntu apt - freedink-engine - 109.6-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: freedink-engine from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game (engine) | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- dnf - freedink - 109.6-20.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: freedink from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- dnf - freedink-engine - 109.6-20.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: freedink-engine from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game (engine) | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/
- MacPorts - freedink: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: games/freedink/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Pranav435.Dink: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Pranav435.Dink from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/freedink.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/freedink.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