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Install gnu-shogi with Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix

Japanese Chess. Version 1.4.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install gnu-shogi

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install gnushogi

MacPorts ports tree · games/gnushogi/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install gnuminishogi

Debian stable package indexes · gnuminishogi · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install gnushogi

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · gnushogi · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#gnushogi

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gn/gnushogi/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Japanese Chess

Commands and aliases

  • gnushogi

history

Project history and usage

GNU Shogi is a GNU game engine for shogi, the Japanese chess variant. It plays against a human user or against itself and can run with a text interface or through older graphical frontends.

Project history

GNU's June 1993 bulletin records GNU Shogi as newly added to the Utilities Tape and describes it as a program created by modifying GNU Chess. The same bulletin identifies Matthias Mutz and explains the engine/front-end split between GNU Shogi and GNU XShogi, with XShogi derived from XBoard.

Adoption history

GNU Shogi represents the GNU Project's early effort to include freely redistributable games as part of a broad Unix-like software environment. Its niche adoption centered on users who wanted a terminal or X Window System shogi opponent, especially on Unix systems where packaged board-game engines and X11 frontends were natural distribution units.

How it is used

Practitioners use gnushogi to play shogi against the engine, test positions, run the engine against itself, configure time controls, use opening books, and save or restore games. The manual documents curses, raw text, and xshogi-compatible display modes.

Why package nerds care

GNU Shogi is package-nerd interesting less for broad deployment than for lineage: it is a GNU Chess derivative, an XBoard/XShogi-era Unix game, and a reminder that GNU packages include small interactive programs as well as compilers and shell utilities.

Timeline

  • 1993: GNU's Bulletin listed GNU Shogi among new programs on the Utilities Tape.
  • 1993: GNU's Bulletin described GNU Shogi as derived by modifying GNU Chess.
  • 2013: The GNU Shogi homepage was written with Savannah, mailing-list, and frontend guidance.
  • 2026: The GNU Shogi homepage listed Yann Dirson as maintainer.

Related projects

  • GNU Shogi is related to GNU Chess, GNU XShogi, XBoard, and other Unix board-game engines and frontends.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
gnushogicliglobal 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 version1.4.2
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:gnu-shogi
Version1.4.2
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gnu-shogi
Homepagehttps://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/
Repositoryhttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnushogi.git
Upstream docshttps://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/manual
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/gnushogi/gnushogi-1.4.2.tar.gz
Bottleavailable (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-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegnu-shogi
Version Scheme0
Revision0
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.

MacPorts94%

gnushogi

sudo port install gnushogi
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: games/gnushogi/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Debian apt92%

gnuminishogi 1.5~git20140725-2.3

program to play minishogi, a shogi variant on a 5x5 board

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

sudo apt install gnuminishogi
  • Section: games
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gnushogi
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 optional deps
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gnuminishogi from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt92%

gnushogi 1.5~git20140725-2.3

program to play shogi, the Japanese version of chess

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

sudo apt install gnushogi
  • Section: games
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 3 dependencies
  • 3 optional deps
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gnushogi from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix92%

gnushogi

nix profile install nixpkgs#gnushogi
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gn/gnushogi/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt92%

gnuminishogi 1.5~git20140725-2.1

program to play minishogi, a shogi variant on a 5x5 board

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

sudo apt install gnuminishogi
  • Section: universe/games
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gnushogi
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 optional deps
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gnuminishogi from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt92%

gnushogi 1.5~git20140725-2.1

program to play shogi, the Japanese version of chess

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

sudo apt install gnushogi
  • Section: universe/games
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 3 dependencies
  • 3 optional deps
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gnushogi from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf92%

gnushogi 1.5-0.25.git5bb0b5b.fc44

Shogi, the Japanese version of chess

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/

sudo dnf install gnushogi
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: gnushogi
  • 7 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Gnushogi
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gnushogi from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

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source trail

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