macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install vampirelocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install vampireMacPorts ports tree · math/vampire/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew / rank 9502
Install vampire with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix
High-performance theorem prover. Version 5.0.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#vampire.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#vampirenixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/va/vampire/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
High-performance theorem prover
Project links
Commands and aliases
- vampire
history
Project history and usage
Vampire is a high-performance automated theorem prover whose lineage goes back to Andrei Voronkov's theorem-proving work in Novosibirsk around 1990 and an earlier Lisp predecessor called Drakosha. The Vampire project itself began at Uppsala University in 1994 after Voronkov's visit to Bull Research Lab. Its first C++ incarnation was used for experiments with code trees and early competition work against SETHEO.
Project history
The second major incarnation appeared in Uppsala and then moved to the University of Manchester, developed from 1998 by Voronkov and Alexandre Riazanov and later maintained by Voronkov. The project history says this line of Vampire began winning CASC competitions in 1999. A third reincarnation started in 2008 with Kryštof Hoder, reusing some preprocessing code but rewriting the resolution and superposition engine; the 2009 competition version combined second- and third-generation components through scripts named Dracula and Drakosha. From 2014, a broader team took over active development, with important contributions in program analysis, interpolation, and symbol elimination from Laura Kovacs and later work centered around Manchester, Vienna, and other automated-reasoning groups.
Adoption history
Competition history is central to Vampire's reputation. The official trophy page says Vampire has won at least one division of CASC, the world cup in theorem proving, since 1999, and as of the March 2026 update had won 78 titles, more than any other prover. In 2025 it achieved a CASC clean sweep, winning all eight theorem-proving divisions that year. That record explains why Vampire is packaged not as a general developer utility but as a specialized science/formal-methods tool: it is a benchmark-grade prover used by researchers and verification systems that need aggressive saturation-based reasoning.
How it is used
Vampire's niche is first-order automated theorem proving, but its feature set has expanded beyond pure theorem proving. The project site describes support for disproving non-theorems, finite model building, combinations of theories such as arithmetic, arrays, and datatypes, SMT-LIB input, portfolio and multicore modes, proof output, finite models, and increasing higher-order and inductive reasoning support. In package usage, users typically invoke the `vampire` binary on TPTP or SMT-LIB problems, tune modes such as CASC-style strategy selection, and integrate it into verification, formal methods, knowledge representation, or theorem-proving research workflows.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for vampire. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
vampire | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version5.0.1
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:vampire |
|---|---|
| Version | 5.0.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://vprover.github.io/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/vprover/vampire |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
vampire
nix profile install nixpkgs#vampire- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Vampire
MacPorts95%
vampire
sudo port install vampire- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Vampire
source trail
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
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