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macOS

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brew install avanor

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overview

Package summary

Quick-growing roguelike game with easy ADOM-like UI

Project links

Commands and aliases

avanor

history

Project history and usage

Avanor is a terminal roguelike RPG, described by its official site as a quick-growing roguelike with an easy ADOM-like user interface. It is a small SourceForge-era game package rather than a large active engine project.

Project history

The Avanor website credits Vadim Gaidukevich and carries early-2000s project styling and news. Its news archive records releases through 0.5.x, an open-sourcing announcement in July 2003, and a later development build after a long break in 2005.

The SourceForge project page describes Avanor as a feature-rich fantasy roguelike with an interactive world, while the official manual covers the expected roguelike topics: quick start, keyboard layout, basic knowledge, magic, skills, equipment, tactics, test modes, and credits.

Adoption history

Avanor's packaging footprint appears narrow. The input only records a Homebrew package, and the upstream download path points to SourceForge project files rather than a broad modern release system. Its adoption is best understood as preservation of a small open-source roguelike in package-manager form.

How it is used

Users run the `avanor` terminal executable and play through keyboard-driven roguelike controls. The manual documents game mechanics rather than system configuration, so there is no official config or credential file to report.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, Avanor is interesting as a preserved ncurses-era roguelike with a SourceForge SVN repository and an old upstream website. It is the kind of formula that keeps niche terminal games installable long after their original community infrastructure has gone quiet.

Timeline

2002: Official news mentions console-output source samples for Win32.
2003: Avanor 0.5.3, 0.5.6, and 0.5.7 releases noted on the official site.
2003: Official site says Avanor was open sourced in July.
2005: Development version released after an almost two-year break.
2006: Official site returned after downtime and announced that 0.6.0 would be available soon.

Related projects

ADOM: upstream describes Avanor's UI as ADOM-like.
SourceForge SVN: official code hosting for the project.
ncurses-style terminal roguelikes: the broader packaging niche Avanor belongs to.

Sources

https://avanor.sourceforge.net/
https://avanor.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/avanor/code/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avanor
source_facts.package-manager

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`avanor`	cli	global executable

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 generated2026-07-08

manager version0.5.8

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://avanor.sourceforge.net/

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://avanor.sourceforge.net/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:avanor
Version	0.5.8
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/avanor
Homepage	https://avanor.sourceforge.net/
Repository	https://sourceforge.net/p/avanor/code
Upstream docs	https://avanor.sourceforge.net/
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/avanor/avanor/0.5.8/avanor-0.5.8-src.tar.bz2
Uses from macOS	ncurses
Bottle	available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	avanor
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/avanor.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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