nethack

The popular nethack console adventure

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NetHack is a wonderfully silly, yet quite addictive, Dungeons & Dragons-style adventure game. You play a character from one of many classes (such as wizard, ranger, or tourist), fighting your way down to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor (try saying THAT one backwards!) for your god. On the way, you might encounter a quantum mechanic or two, or perhaps King Arthur, or - if you're REALLY lucky - the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. You should install a front-end for NetHack if you wish to play the game. Each of them includes the original non-graphical version, and they can all be installed at the same time: - nethack-console: no graphics, just plain NetHack; - nethack-x11 : original X11/Athena-based graphical version; - nethack-qt : Qt version. This package provides the Qt-based graphical versions of NetHack.

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Project

Publisher: Oliver Grawert
License: NGPL

Install

Available via: Snap (4) · Arch Linux (3) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux · Slackware · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
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Snap Store, Snap Store (Candidate build), Snap Store (Beta build), Snap Store (Nightly build), AUR (Git build), AUR (Qt build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Gentoo (Candidate build)

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Sources: Sources disagree on the name: nethack / nethackqt
Catalog data as of: October 12, 2026

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Source	Name	Version	Built by	License	Description
Snap Store	nethack	3.6.6	—	Other Open Source	The popular nethack console adventure
Snap Store (Candidate build)	nethack	3.6.2	—	Other Open Source	The popular nethack console adventure
Snap Store (Beta build)	nethack	3.6.2	—	Other Open Source	The popular nethack console adventure
Snap Store (Nightly build)	nethack	3.6.6	—	Other Open Source	The popular nethack console adventure
AUR (Git build)	nethack-git	5.0.0_Release+r19762+gb1e2c2eaa-2	—	NGPL	A single player dungeon exploration game
AUR (Qt build)	nethack-qt	3.6.6-1	Community build, patched	custom	A single player dungeon exploration game
Debian	nethack-qt	3.6.7-1+b2	Distribution build	—	dungeon crawl game - Qt interface
Ubuntu	nethack-qt	3.6.7-2build1	Distribution build	—	dungeon crawl game - Qt interface
Fedora	nethack	3.6.7	Distribution build	NGPL	A rogue-like single player dungeon exploration game
Arch Linux	nethack	5.0.0-1	Distribution build	NGPL	A single player dungeon exploration game
Nixpkgs	nethack	5.0.0	Distribution build	NGPL	Rogue-like game
Nixpkgs	nethack-qt	5.0.0	Distribution build	NGPL	Rogue-like game
openSUSE	nethack	3.6.7	Distribution build	NGPL	Turn-based role-playing game
Alpine Linux	nethack	3.6.7-r2	Distribution build	NGPL	A single player dungeon exploration game
Void Linux	nethack	5.0.0_2	Distribution build	NGPL	Exploring The Mazes of Menace
Slackware	nethack	5.0.0-5	Distribution build	—	nethack (Rogue-like game)
Gentoo (Candidate build)	nethack	5.0.0-r1	Distribution build	nethack	The ultimate old-school single player dungeon exploration game

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