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Install go with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper

Open source programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software. Version 1.26.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-08.

Install commandSecurity notes

agent safety

Agent safety answer

go builds and runs binaries that can access project files, modules, and release workflows.

Credential access

Reads environment variables, private module credentials, Git credentials, and project config.

Remote mutation

Can run tools that call cloud, Git, or deployment APIs.

Publish/artifact risk

Can produce release binaries and publish modules or container images via scripts.

Recommended control

Gate release, private-module, and deployment commands.

Agent-use guidance

Allow build/test commands; require approval for release publishing and credentialed module operations.

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install go

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install go

MacPorts ports tree · lang/go/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add go

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

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install golang

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

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#go

nixpkgs package indexes · go · source: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S go

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

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install go

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · go · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

Open source programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software

Commands and aliases

  • go
  • gofmt

history

Project history and usage

Go is an open source programming language, compiler, standard library, formatter, and command-line toolchain distributed through the go and gofmt executables.

Project history

Go was designed at Google beginning in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson to improve programming productivity for multicore, networked machines and large codebases. The project was launched to the public on 10 November 2009 as an open source language focused on simplicity and efficiency.

Go 1 was released on 28 March 2012 and established the compatibility promise that programs written for Go 1 should continue to compile and run under later Go 1 releases. That stability turned the experimental public release into a predictable platform for application code, libraries, and distribution packaging.

Adoption history

The Go team described strong early community growth after the 2009 launch, including external contributors, mailing-list activity, and adoption both inside Google and by outside companies. By the project's tenth anniversary, Go's official blog described adoption across cloud infrastructure, naming Docker, Etcd, Istio, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Terraform as examples of core cloud software written in Go.

How it is used

Practitioners use the go command to create modules, fetch dependencies, build, test, install commands, run programs, and maintain go.mod and go.sum files. A module's go.mod file defines the module path, Go version, and dependency requirements, while Go commands such as go mod tidy and go get keep those requirements consistent.

Go's toolchain model made the package more than a compiler binary. The distribution includes the go command plus a bundled toolchain made up of the standard library, compiler, assembler, and other tools; beginning with Go 1.21, the go command can also select or download toolchains according to go and toolchain lines in a module or workspace.

Why package nerds care

The brew:go formula is a foundational language-runtime package on macOS and Linux because it installs the canonical go command and gofmt formatter used to build Go software and many other Homebrew formulas from source.

Timeline

  • 2007: Go design work began at Google.
  • 2009: Go was launched as an open source project.
  • 2012: Go 1 was released with the long-term compatibility promise.
  • 2018: Go 1.11 introduced preliminary module support.
  • 2021: Go 1.16 made module-aware mode the default and added //go:embed.
  • 2023: Go 1.21 introduced automatic toolchain selection in the go command.

Related projects

  • Go's ecosystem includes pkg.go.dev, the standard library, the module proxy and checksum database, the x/tools repository, and large cloud-native projects such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Docker, Etcd, and Istio.

approval gates

Human review metadata for risky commands

The local approval-gate seed includes 7 rules for go. Covered entrypoints: go, gofmt. Severity labels: high, low, medium. Coverage: partial, reviewed 2026-05-21.

Example gated actions

  • Compile and run Go packages or files.
  • Install Go commands, often from remote module paths.
  • Change module requirements.
  • Compile and execute tests.
  • Persist Go environment configuration.
  • Delete Go build, module, fuzz, or test caches.
  • Rewrite Go source files in place.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
gocliglobal executable
gofmtcliglobal 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 version1.26.5
manager updated2026-07-08
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://go.dev/

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

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:go
Version1.26.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/go
Homepagehttps://go.dev/
Repositoryhttps://go.googlesource.com/go
Upstream docshttps://go.dev/doc
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://go.dev/dl/go1.26.5.src.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-08T03:14:15Z
Pulseupdated
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 Namego
Aliases
  • go@1.26
  • golang
  • google-go
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Requirements
  • macos
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%

go

nix profile install nixpkgs#go
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: go from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
apk95%

go 1.26.3-r0

Go programming language compiler

https://go.dev/

sudo apk add go
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: go from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

go-doc 1.26.3-r0

Go programming language compiler (documentation)

https://go.dev/

sudo apk add go-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: go-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

golang 1.26.4-2.fc45

The Go Programming Language

https://go.dev

sudo dnf install golang
  • License: BSD-3-Clause AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: golang
  • 3 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: golang from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

go 2:1.26.4-1

Core compiler tools for the Go programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo pacman -S go
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: go from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

go 1.26-1.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

http://golang.org

sudo zypper install go
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go
  • 1 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go-doc 1.26-1.1

Go documentation

http://golang.org

sudo zypper install go-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Documentation/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go-race 1.26-1.1

Go runtime race detector

https://compiler-rt.llvm.org/

sudo zypper install go-race
  • License: NCSA or MIT
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go-race from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.21 1.21.13-8.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.21
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.21
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.21 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.22 1.22.12-4.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.22
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.22
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.22 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.23 1.23.12-3.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.23
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.23
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.23 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.24 1.24.13-2.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.24
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.24
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.24 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.25 1.25.11-2.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.25
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.25
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.25 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

go1.26 1.26.4-2.1

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language

https://go.dev/

sudo zypper install go1.26
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Languages/Go
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: go1.26
  • 6 dependencies
  • 6 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: go1.26 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

go

sudo port install go
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: lang/go/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

go

choco install go
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: go from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','glab'

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source trail

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combined/go.yml

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • approval-gate seed metadata
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated agent safety answer
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment