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Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Version 3.3.10 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install nicotine-plus

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install nicotine-plus

MacPorts ports tree · www/nicotine-plus/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add nicotine-plus

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · nicotine-plus · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#nicotine-plus

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ni/nicotine-plus/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install nicotine

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

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install nicotine+

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · nicotine+ · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S nicotine+

Arch Linux sync databases · nicotine+ · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/nicotine-plus

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/nicotine-plus.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Nicotine+.Nicotine+ -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Nicotine+.Nicotine+ · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

Commands and aliases

  • nicotine

history

Project history and usage

Nicotine+ is a graphical GTK client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. The project presents itself as a free, open source, Python-based client for sharing files, chatting, and interoperating with other Soulseek clients.

Project history

The project lineage reaches back to PySoulSeek and Nicotine: the official development notes say Nicotine+ was originally based on backend code from PySoulSeek, which started in 2001, and that Nicotine chose GTK after PySoulSeek had used wxPython. The Nicotine+ homepage credits Nicotine+, Nicotine, and PySoulSeek contributors across 2001-2026, and also preserves the former Nicotine maintainer's 2003 explanation of the name.

Nicotine+ has stayed alive largely by being conservative about portability and dependencies. Its development guide says the client aims to run on almost any system, prefers standard-library functionality where possible, and maintains an unofficial Soulseek protocol document because the Soulseek protocol is proprietary and undocumented by the official service.

Adoption history

Adoption is strongest in the package-manager sense rather than the commercial ecosystem sense. The official downloads page lists packages for Alpine, Arch, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Guix, Haiku, NixOS, OpenBSD, Void, Flatpak, Snap, Chocolatey, Scoop, Winget, Homebrew, and others. GitHub showed roughly 3,000 stars and 183 forks when researched on July 1, 2026.

Homebrew's formula API reported 1,363 installs over 365 days, 322 over 90 days, and 113 over 30 days when queried on July 1, 2026. That makes it a modest but real desktop-app formula, especially for a P2P client with official macOS installers outside Homebrew.

How it is used

Users install Nicotine+ when they want a native open-source Soulseek client instead of the official SoulseekQt client. Practical usage is GUI-driven: search the Soulseek network, browse users, manage shares and downloads, chat, and tune connection/transfer behavior.

Package nerd usage is mostly about distribution fit: Nicotine+ is a Python/GTK desktop app with many downstream packages, release assets for Windows and macOS, Flatpak/Snap builds, PyPI fallback installation, and distro-sensitive dependency choices.

Why package nerds care

Nicotine+ is notable because it is one of the long-lived open-source clients for a proprietary P2P protocol. Its packaging footprint is broad, and the project explicitly designs for packagers and older platforms instead of treating source builds as an afterthought.

Timeline

  • 2001: PySoulSeek project lineage begins, according to Nicotine+ development documentation.
  • 2003: Former Nicotine maintainer Hyriand gives the naming story preserved on the official homepage.
  • March 10, 2025: Nicotine+ 3.3.10 is listed on the official homepage as the stable release.
  • June 2026: The homepage points testers to the second 3.3.11 release candidate.

Related projects

  • Soulseek, PySoulSeek, Nicotine, SoulseekQt, GTK, Flatpak, Snap, PyPI

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:network,client

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 6 runtime 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.

Windows
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\nicotine

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
nicotinecliglobal 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 version3.3.10
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://nicotine-plus.org

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://nicotine-plus.orgnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:nicotine-plus
Version3.3.10
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nicotine-plus
Homepagehttps://nicotine-plus.org
Repositoryhttps://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus
Upstream docshttps://nicotine-plus.org/doc/DEVELOPING.html
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bb/91/b7d2f353828d1bc57bb43cfe9006b0fde4d6ffe1458d5045c58f567ed33a/nicotine_plus-3.3.10.tar.gz
Dependenciesadwaita-icon-theme, gtk4, libadwaita, py3cairo, pygobject3, python@3.14
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namenicotine-plus
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Conflicts With
  • httm
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • 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%

nicotine-plus

nix profile install nixpkgs#nicotine-plus
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ni/nicotine-plus/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

nicotine-plus 3.3.10-r1

Graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system

https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus

sudo apk add nicotine-plus
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: nicotine-plus
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nicotine-plus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

nicotine-plus-doc 3.3.10-r1

Graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system (documentation)

https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus

sudo apk add nicotine-plus-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: nicotine-plus
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nicotine-plus-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

nicotine-plus-lang 3.3.10-r1

Languages for package nicotine-plus

https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus

sudo apk add nicotine-plus-lang
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: nicotine-plus
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nicotine-plus-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

nicotine-plus-pyc 3.3.10-r1

Precompiled Python bytecode for nicotine-plus

https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus

sudo apk add nicotine-plus-pyc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: nicotine-plus
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: nicotine-plus-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

nicotine-plus

sudo port install nicotine-plus
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: www/nicotine-plus/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

extras/nicotine-plus

scoop install extras/nicotine-plus
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Nicotine Plus
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/nicotine-plus.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Debian apt92%

nicotine 3.3.10-1

graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

https://nicotine-plus.org/

sudo apt install nicotine
  • Section: net
  • Architecture: all
  • 3 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Nicotine
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: nicotine from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Ubuntu apt92%

nicotine 3.2.9-2

graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

https://nicotine-plus.org/

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

nicotine+ 3.3.10-7.fc45

A graphical client for Soulseek

https://nicotine-plus.github.io/nicotine-plus/

sudo dnf install nicotine+
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: nicotine+
  • 5 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Nicotine
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: nicotine+ from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman92%

nicotine+ 3.3.10-2

Soulseek music-sharing client, written in python

https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus

sudo pacman -S nicotine+
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Architecture: any
  • 7 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Nicotine
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: nicotine+ from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
winget92%

Nicotine+.Nicotine+

winget install --id Nicotine+.Nicotine+ -e
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Nicotine
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Nicotine+.Nicotine+ from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

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

Related tools

  • gtk4Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libadwaitaRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • python@3.14Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • ncdcShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, file-sharing, networking.
  • rqbitShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, file-sharing, networking.
  • sambaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, file-sharing, networking.
  • sendmeShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, peer-to-peer.

source trail

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  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
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