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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install yetris

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Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#yetris

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

overview

Package summary

Customizable Tetris for the terminal

Project links

Commands and aliases

yetris

history

Project history and usage

yetris is a terminal Tetris clone by Alexandre Dantas, built for players who want modern Tetris conveniences inside a text UI. Its README frames it as a customizable terminal game with colors, animated ncurses screens, hold and ghost pieces, multiple profiles, gameplay statistics, and old-school mode options.

Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in February 2013. The README says the project was originally developed in C and later reprogrammed in C++ with ncurses, with POSIX terminals as its target environment.

Its short public release series in early 2014 shows a compact, hobbyist terminal-game lifecycle: v1.6 and v1.7 in January 2014, v2.0 in February 2014, and v2.1 in March 2014.

Adoption history

The project remained a niche terminal game rather than a broad platform, but it acquired the usual small-package signals that matter to command-line game collectors: a man page, a make-based install flow, POSIX focus, ncurses dependency, and packaging in Unix package sets.

How it is used

Users build it with make, can test it with make run, and launch it as yetris. The README points users to man yetris and yetris --help after installation.

Why package nerds care

yetris is useful catalog material because it represents the ncurses game tradition in package managers: tiny executable, no service, no account, no network API, just a portable text-mode game with enough customization to justify packaging.

Timeline

2013-02: Public GitHub repository created.
2014-01: v1.6 and v1.7 releases published.
2014-02: v2.0 release published.
2014-03: v2.1 release published.

Related projects

ncurses: terminal UI library used by yetris.
Tetris-style terminal games: the broader package-manager niche yetris belongs to.

Sources

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
`yetris`	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 version2.3.0

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv2.3.0

https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:yetris
Version	2.3.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/yetris
Homepage	https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris
Repository	https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris
Upstream docs	https://alexdantas.github.io/yetris
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Source archive	https://github.com/alexdantas/yetris/archive/refs/tags/v2.3.0.tar.gz
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	yetris
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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

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Nix95%

yetris

nix profile install nixpkgs#yetris

normalized package name match
Matched by: Yetris

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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/yetris.yml

Used sources

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Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
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