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Install easyrpg-player with Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix

RPG Maker 2000/2003 games interpreter. Version 0.8.1.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-18.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install easyrpg-player

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add easyrpg-player

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · easyrpg-player · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install easyrpg-player

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · easyrpg-player · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#easyrpg-player

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ea/easyrpg-player/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

RPG Maker 2000/2003 games interpreter

Commands and aliases

  • easyrpg-player

history

Project history and usage

EasyRPG Player is a free, cross-platform interpreter for RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003, and EasyRPG games. It is one of the more culturally significant packages in this batch because it preserves and reimplements a large body of hobbyist RPG Maker games outside the original Windows runtime.

Project history

The EasyRPG Player GitHub repository was created in January 2012. The project website describes the Player as a program for playing RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 games, with the goal of behaving like the original RPG_RT interpreter.

The Player is part of the broader EasyRPG project and uses liblcf to read RPG Maker game data. The README points users to the EasyRPG website, wiki documentation, CI builds, and the GitHub issue tracker, reflecting a long-running preservation and compatibility project rather than a one-off emulator.

Release history shows steady compatibility work. The 0.3 release in 2015 highlighted major RPG Maker feature support, web-player improvements, Android work, and compatibility with games such as Yume Nikki-related content. Later releases moved the build and dependency stack forward, including CMake improvements, liblcf version coupling, FreeType/font work, C++17, SDL3 support, and archive handling.

Adoption history

EasyRPG Player's adoption is tied to the RPG Maker 2000/2003 freeware and fan-game community: users run it from a game directory containing RPG_RT.exe-era assets, while maintainers package it for desktop, mobile, web, and homebrew-style platforms. The input metadata records packages in Homebrew, Nix, APK, and DNF ecosystems.

The 2015 release notes explicitly mention macOS distribution through Homebrew, and current release notes still call out Homebrew platforms when discussing archive filename encoding fixes. That gives it an unusually direct relationship with package-manager users for a retro-game interpreter.

How it is used

The README says to run `easyrpg-player` from an RPG Maker 2000 or 2003 game project folder. The project website also documents the web player, manuals, progress tracking, downloads, and compatibility testing.

Why package nerds care

EasyRPG Player is a dependency-sensitive package: liblcf must match the Player release, and optional audio, font, archive, JSON, and SDL dependencies change the feature set. For package maintainers, it is a compact case study in preserving old game formats while still tracking modern compiler, CMake, multimedia, and platform-port requirements.

It also matters because the package is not just for launching games; it is a preservation runtime for an ecosystem whose original interpreter was tied to older Windows assumptions. Good packaging widens access to old RPG Maker games on Unix-like desktops, phones, browsers, and hobbyist systems.

Timeline

  • 2012: Public EasyRPG Player repository created.
  • 2015: 0.3 release documented major RPG Maker 2000/2003 compatibility improvements and web-player work.
  • 2015: 0.3.1 release notes mentioned macOS distribution via Homebrew.
  • 2021: 0.7.0 release moved maintainers toward newer build systems and dependencies.
  • 2023: 0.8 release improved fonts, build systems, and platform organization.
  • 2025: 0.8.1 and 0.8.1.1 releases moved toward C++17, SDL3 support, CMake, and improved archive handling.

Related projects

  • EasyRPG liblcf is the parser library named by the README and release notes. Other related surfaces include the EasyRPG wiki, EasyRPG web player, CI builds, RPG Maker 2000/2003, and the original RPG_RT runtime compatibility target.

security posture

Risk level: yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risk classifier

yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime

Why

  • generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signals

  • text:interpreter

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 15 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/EasyRPG/PlayerEasyRPG.iniRPG_RT.ini

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
easyrpg-playercliglobal 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 version0.8.1.1
manager updated2026-06-18
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://easyrpg.org/

  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://easyrpg.org/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:easyrpg-player
Version0.8.1.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/easyrpg-player
Homepagehttps://easyrpg.org/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/EasyRPG/Player
Upstream docshttps://easyrpg.org/player/guide/webplayer
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://easyrpg.org/downloads/player/0.8.1.1/easyrpg-player-0.8.1.1.tar.xz
Last updated2026-06-18T02:28:56-04:00
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesfmt, freetype, harfbuzz, icu4c@78, inih, liblcf, libogg, libpng, libsndfile, libvorbis, libxmp, mpg123, pixman, sdl2-compat, speexdsp
Build dependenciescmake, pkgconf
Uses from macOSexpat
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameeasyrpg-player
Version Scheme0
Revision2
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

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%

easyrpg-player

nix profile install nixpkgs#easyrpg-player
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Easyrpg Player
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ea/easyrpg-player/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

easyrpg-player 0.8.1.1-r0

RPG Maker 2000/2003 and EasyRPG games interpreter

https://easyrpg.org/player/

sudo apk add easyrpg-player
  • License: MIT
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: easyrpg-player
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Easyrpg Player
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: easyrpg-player from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

easyrpg-player-bash-completion 0.8.1.1-r0

Bash completions for easyrpg-player

https://easyrpg.org/player/

sudo apk add easyrpg-player-bash-completion
  • License: MIT
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: easyrpg-player
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Easyrpg Player
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: easyrpg-player-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

easyrpg-player-doc 0.8.1.1-r0

RPG Maker 2000/2003 and EasyRPG games interpreter (documentation)

https://easyrpg.org/player/

sudo apk add easyrpg-player-doc
  • License: MIT
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: easyrpg-player
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Easyrpg Player
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: easyrpg-player-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

easyrpg-player 0.8.1.1-5.fc45

Game interpreter for RPG Maker 2000/2003 and EasyRPG games

https://easyrpg.org

sudo dnf install easyrpg-player
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND (Unlicense OR MIT-0) AND (MIT AND CC0-1.0) AND BSD-3-Clause AND Baekmuk AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND MIT AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: easyrpg-player
  • 24 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Easyrpg Player
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: easyrpg-player from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

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Related tools

  • freetypeRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • harfbuzzRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • liblcfRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libpngRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • cmakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • crispy-doomShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, game-engine, games, retro-gaming.
  • openjazzShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, game-engine, games, retro-gaming.
  • woof-doomShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, game-engine, games, retro-gaming.
  • arx-libertatisShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, game-engine, games.
  • corsixthShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, game-engine, games.
  • dmagneticShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, games, interpreter, retro-gaming.

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