# Install yetris with Homebrew, Nix

Customizable Tetris for the terminal. Version 2.3.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#yetris.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:yetris
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install yetris
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#yetris
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:yetris
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.3.0
- **Source summary:** Customizable Tetris for the terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- yetris (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.3.0
## Project history and usage

yetris is a terminal Tetris clone by Alexandre Dantas, built for players who want modern Tetris conveniences inside a text UI. Its README frames it as a customizable terminal game with colors, animated ncurses screens, hold and ghost pieces, multiple profiles, gameplay statistics, and old-school mode options.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in February 2013. The README says the project was originally developed in C and later reprogrammed in C++ with ncurses, with POSIX terminals as its target environment.

Its short public release series in early 2014 shows a compact, hobbyist terminal-game lifecycle: v1.6 and v1.7 in January 2014, v2.0 in February 2014, and v2.1 in March 2014.

### Adoption history

The project remained a niche terminal game rather than a broad platform, but it acquired the usual small-package signals that matter to command-line game collectors: a man page, a make-based install flow, POSIX focus, ncurses dependency, and packaging in Unix package sets.

### How it is used

Users build it with make, can test it with make run, and launch it as yetris. The README points users to man yetris and yetris --help after installation.

### Why package nerds care

yetris is useful catalog material because it represents the ncurses game tradition in package managers: tiny executable, no service, no account, no network API, just a portable text-mode game with enough customization to justify packaging.

### Timeline

- 2013-02: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2014-01: v1.6 and v1.7 releases published.
- 2014-02: v2.0 release published.
- 2014-03: v2.1 release published.

### Related projects

- ncurses: terminal UI library used by yetris.
- Tetris-style terminal games: the broader package-manager niche yetris belongs to.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/alexdantas/yetris - repository creation date and project description.>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/alexdantas/yetris/releases - release tags and publication dates.>
- <https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris - README describes origins, features, POSIX/ncurses focus, and 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 - yetris: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ye/yetris/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/yetris.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/yetris.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