# Install hexgui with Homebrew, Nix

GUI for playing Hex over Hex Text Protocol. Version 0.9.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#hexgui.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:hexgui
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hexgui
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hexgui
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:hexgui
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.4
- **Source summary:** GUI for playing Hex over Hex Text Protocol
- **Homepage:** <https://sourceforge.net/p/benzene/hexgui/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/apetresc/hexgui>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hexgui (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9.4
## Project history and usage

hexgui is a Java GUI for the board game Hex, packaged as the graphical side of the Benzene/Hex tooling world and built around running Hex games and engines from a desktop interface.

### Project history

The SourceForge tree identifies the project as benzene/hexgui, marks it beta, and credits Broderick Arneson and Markus Enzenberger. The README is intentionally terse: build with ant and run bin/hexgui.

The file history visible on SourceForge places key files in the 2010-2014 range, including the README dated 2010-02-26 and source-tree updates through 2014.

### Adoption history

The batch metadata lists Homebrew and Nix packaging. That is narrow adoption, but it is meaningful for a niche board-game tool because it keeps an otherwise SourceForge-era Java utility installable from modern package managers.

### How it is used

hexgui is used as a GUI for playing or analyzing Hex games, commonly in relation to engines that speak Hex or Go Text Protocol-style command protocols.

### Why package nerds care

Its package-nerd interest is mostly archival and interoperability-oriented: it packages a small Java GUI from the computer-Hex ecosystem, preserving access to a tool associated with Benzene/MoHex-style engine workflows.

### Timeline

- 2010: README and TODO files appear in the SourceForge tree.
- 2011: Wrapper, Windows launcher, license, and build-file updates appear in the SourceForge tree.
- 2014: Source updates include adding 15x15 to the list of board sizes.
- 2016: A GitHub mirror of benzene/hexgui is created under apetresc/hexgui.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Benzene, MoHex, Wolve, and other Hex engines or research tools that can be driven from a GUI.

### Sources

- GitHub mirror metadata identifies the apetresc/hexgui repository as a mirror of benzene/hexgui.
- Input package-manager facts supply the Homebrew and Nix package presence.
- SourceForge project tree supplies the project name, beta status, credited maintainers, file dates, and README usage.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

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