# Install myman with Homebrew, Nix, zypper

Text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. Version 2009-10-30 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#myman.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:myman
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install myman
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#myman
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install myman
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:myman
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2009-10-30
- **Source summary:** Text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man
- **Homepage:** <https://myman.sourceforge.io/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- myman (alias)
- myman-0.7.1 (alias)
- myman.command (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2009-10-30
## Project history and usage

MyMan is a text-mode arcade game inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. The project homepage describes it as a terminal-oriented game that has been ported across a wide set of text and graphics backends, including ncurses, PDCurses, S/Lang curses, Win32 console, VMS console, raw stdio/termios, GGI, Allegro, aalib, libcaca, TWin, and Carbon. That portability is the package's main historical identity: it is less a modern game platform than a compact C program exploring how much of a maze-chase arcade game can be carried by text displays.

### Project history

The README history says MyMan was written on a dare on 1998-06-28. The first version had no color or attribute support, used large tiles, consisted of 742 lines of ANSI C, and depended on three data files for the maze, tiles, and sprites. It ran with ncurses on Linux and Cygwin, gained alternate maze layouts within hours, and later gained color and small-tile support in December 1998. The README credits Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler for the 1997-2009 copyright period and states that the program moved from its original public-domain status to a BSD-style license.

### How it is used

As packaged by Homebrew, Nix, and openSUSE, MyMan is a small terminal-game curiosity rather than an ecosystem foundation. Users run the `myman` executable for a Pac-Man-like game rendered with characters, and the project site also publishes plain-text and HTML screenshots to show how the same game appears in a terminal.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/myman>
- <https://github.com/kragen/myman>
- <https://github.com/kragen/myman/blob/master/README>
- <https://myman.sourceforge.io/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/myman>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - myman: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/my/myman/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - myman - 0.7.0+cvs20091030-2.30: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: myman from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Text based Pacman clone | http://myman.sourceforge.net/


## Combined YAML source

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