# 使用 Homebrew, apt, Nix 安装 instead
查看 instead 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。
## 安装
```sh
sudo av install brew:instead
```
其他安装命令:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install instead
```
证据: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install instead
```
证据: Debian stable package indexes: instead from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#instead
```
证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/instead/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## 软件包事实
- **软件包键:** brew:instead
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 3.5.2
- **来源摘要:** Interpreter of simple text adventures
- **主页:**
- **仓库:**
- **最后更新:** 2026-06-18T02:28:58-04:00
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## 可执行文件
- instead (别名)
- sdl-instead (别名)
## 安装行为
- Bottle: 不可用
## 版本和新鲜度
- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 3.5.2
## 项目历史与用法
INSTEAD is a small interactive-fiction and textographic-game engine whose package-manager identity is unusually literal: the installed command runs an interpreter for games written around the STEAD/INSTEAD Lua-based runtime. Its official pages describe it as an interpreter for simple text adventures and as a system for games that mix interactive fiction, visual novels, and classic point-and-click adventure conventions.
### 项目历史
The public GitHub repository was created in 2014, but its tags preserve older 1.x work, including a 1.5.0 tag pointing to an August 2011 commit. The project later moved through a 2.x line and reached the 3.x line by 2017, with INSTEAD3 becoming the visible branding on the project site. The project kept a conventional open-source layout, with bundled documentation in the repository and release artifacts published through GitHub.
The project site presents INSTEAD as an open-source MIT-licensed engine that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, the web, and other systems. That broad target list shaped the engine's culture: it is both a desktop interpreter and a portable runtime for a catalog of small authored games.
### 采用历史
INSTEAD reached package-manager users through Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix packaging, while the official site also links to platform-specific channels such as GitHub release builds, Ubuntu/openSUSE repositories, and an Android build on F-Droid. That distribution pattern is typical for niche game engines: package-manager availability matters less for mass adoption than for making old and community-authored games reproducible on Unix-like systems.
### 使用方式
The README documents a simple interpreter workflow: install the program, place game archives under the user's INSTEAD games directory or pass a zip-packed game to the `instead` command, and use the bundled documentation when authoring games. The official site emphasizes UTF-8 text editing, Lua inside the engine, and the doc directory as the main authoring surface.
### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心
For package maintainers, INSTEAD is a good example of a non-mainstream game-engine package whose value is preservation and runtime availability rather than developer trendiness. It packages a playable interpreter, SDL-facing binaries, game documentation, and cross-platform release artifacts for a community that has much of its history outside the Anglophone interactive-fiction mainstream.
### 时间线
- 2011: The preserved 1.5.0 tag points to an August 2011 commit in the public source history.
- 2014: The GitHub repository was created and older 1.x/2.x work was represented in tags.
- 2017: The 3.0.0 tag marks the visible transition into the INSTEAD3 line.
- 2024: INSTEAD 3.5.2 was published on the official site and GitHub releases.
### Related projects
- INSTEAD sits near interactive-fiction systems, visual-novel engines, and lightweight 2D adventure runtimes, but its Lua-based textographic model and interpreter/package split give it a distinct packaging profile.
### 来源
- Official project site, GitHub README, GitHub release/tag metadata, and Homebrew formula metadata.
## 安全说明
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
- **Geiger 风险:** yellow / 中
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
## 其他软件包管理器记录
- Debian apt - instead - 3.5.2+dfsg-0.2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instead from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Simple text adventures/visual novels engine | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Debian apt - instead-data - 3.5.2+dfsg-0.2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instead-data from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Data files for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Debian apt - instead-doc-common - 3.5.2+dfsg-0.2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instead-doc-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Common documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Debian apt - instead-doc-en - 3.5.2+dfsg-0.2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instead-doc-en from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | English documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Debian apt - instead-doc-ru - 3.5.2+dfsg-0.2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instead-doc-ru from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Russian documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Nix - instead: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/instead/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - instead - 3.3.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instead from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Simple text adventures/visual novels engine | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - instead-data - 3.3.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instead-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Data files for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - instead-doc-common - 3.3.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instead-doc-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Common documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - instead-doc-en - 3.3.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instead-doc-en from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | English documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - instead-doc-ru - 3.3.2-1.1build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instead-doc-ru from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Russian documentation for INSTEAD | https://instead-hub.github.io/
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/instead.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/instead.yml)
## 来源
- 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