# Install grpc with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper Next generation open source RPC library and framework. Version 1.82.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-02. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:grpc ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install grpc ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install grpc ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/grpc/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add grpc ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: grpc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libgrpc++-dev ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: libgrpc++-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install grpc ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: grpc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#grpc ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grpc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S grpc ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: grpc from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install grpc-devel ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: grpc-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:grpc - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.82.0 - **Source summary:** Next generation open source RPC library and framework - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-02T20:34:06Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - grpc_cpp_plugin (cli) - grpc_csharp_plugin (cli) - grpc_node_plugin (cli) - grpc_objective_c_plugin (cli) - grpc_php_plugin (cli) - grpc_python_plugin (cli) - grpc_ruby_plugin (cli) - grpc_cpp_plugin (alias) - grpc_csharp_plugin (alias) - grpc_node_plugin (alias) - grpc_objective_c_plugin (alias) - grpc_php_plugin (alias) - grpc_python_plugin (alias) - grpc_ruby_plugin (alias) ## Dependencies - abseil - c-ares - openssl@3 - protobuf - re2 ## Build dependencies - cmake ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.82.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-02 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/grpc/grpc - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage gRPC is an open source, high-performance Remote Procedure Call framework used to define services with Protocol Buffers and generate client/server bindings across languages. The Homebrew `grpc` package is especially package-manager-relevant because it ships native code and protocol-compiler plugins for multiple languages, making it part runtime library, part code-generation toolkit, and part distributed-systems plumbing. ### Project history The gRPC design came from Google's internal Stubby RPC infrastructure. The official 2015 motivation and design post explains that Stubby had connected large numbers of Google microservices for more than a decade but was tied to internal infrastructure, while HTTP/2 and related public standards made an open rework practical. gRPC was announced publicly in 2015 and reached 1.0 on 2016-08-23. The 1.0 announcement stated that C++, Java, Go, Node, Ruby, Python, and C# moved to 1.0 across Linux, Windows, and Mac, with Objective-C and Android Java support also moving to 1.0. The 1.0 release established a stable core protocol and API surface, semantic versioning expectations, cross-language interoperability tests, and public performance measurements. That combination made gRPC packageable not only as a library but as a cross-language toolchain component. CNCF accepted gRPC on 2017-02-16 at the Incubating maturity level. The CNCF project page identifies it as a high-performance open source universal RPC framework and exposes project health and contributor metrics through LFX insights. ### Adoption history The 1.0 announcement described early usage in open source projects such as etcd, containerd, and CockroachDB and by companies including Netflix, Vendasta, YikYak, Carbon3D, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and Ciena. It also cited Google Cloud APIs and TensorFlow using gRPC for API surfaces or inter-process communication. The official site presents gRPC as useful across data centers, mobile applications, browsers, and backend services, with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking, and authentication. gRPC-Web extended the model toward browser clients. The official gRPC-Web history notes work beginning in 2016, a 1.0/GA moment in 2018 for the Google implementation, and Envoy-proxy-based deployment patterns for translating browser requests to gRPC HTTP/2 services. ### How it is used Developers define services in `.proto` files, then use `protoc` and gRPC plugins to generate typed client and server code. The Homebrew package's executables are language plugins such as `grpc_cpp_plugin`, `grpc_csharp_plugin`, `grpc_node_plugin`, `grpc_objective_c_plugin`, `grpc_php_plugin`, `grpc_python_plugin`, and `grpc_ruby_plugin`. Common package use is indirect: a developer installs `grpc` so builds can generate service stubs, compile native gRPC dependencies, or satisfy packages that need C-core-based language bindings. gRPC's design goals explain why it became a package-manager staple: broad platform coverage, open licensing, interoperability over common infrastructure, general-purpose performance, streaming, blocking and non-blocking APIs, cancellation, flow control, pluggability, metadata, and standardized status codes. ### Why package nerds care gRPC is a dependency magnet. It appears in language package managers, OS package managers, Docker images, generated-code workflows, and cloud-native control planes because service definitions need compiler plugins and runtime libraries. It also illustrates a hard packaging problem: one protocol family spans C/C++, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Objective-C, C#, Node, web proxies, and generated artifacts. OS packages often expose only a slice of that surface while language ecosystems ship their own runtime packages. For CLI and formula users, the codegen plugins are the visible part. A successful install often matters less because a human will run `grpc_cpp_plugin` directly and more because Bazel, CMake, Make, Gradle, or another build tool can find it during protocol generation. ### Timeline - 2014: CNCF project metrics list the first commit date as 2014-05-06. - 2015: gRPC design principles were published, describing the public rework of Google's Stubby ideas. - 2016: gRPC 1.0 was announced on 2016-08-23. - 2017: gRPC was accepted to CNCF at the Incubating maturity level. - 2018: gRPC-Web reached general availability for the Google implementation. - 2021: The gRPC C# project announced a shift toward grpc-dotnet for the future of C# usage. ### Related projects - Protocol Buffers provide the default interface definition language and message encoding for gRPC. - grpc-go, grpc-java, grpc-node, grpc-dotnet, grpc-web, and other language implementations carry gRPC into specific ecosystems. - Envoy is commonly used as a gRPC and gRPC-Web proxy in cloud-native deployments. - grpc-gateway maps gRPC services to REST/JSON interfaces for mixed client environments. - etcd, containerd, CockroachDB, TensorFlow, and several Google Cloud APIs are prominent projects or services cited by official gRPC materials. ### Sources - - - - - - - - ## Security Notes library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** grpc - **Aliases:** grpc@1.82 - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - libgrpc++-dev - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgrpc++-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | high performance general RPC framework (development) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - libgrpc++1.51t64 - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgrpc++1.51t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | high performance general RPC framework | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - libgrpc-dev - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgrpc-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | high performance general RPC framework (development) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - libgrpc29t64 - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgrpc29t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | high performance general RPC framework | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - protobuf-compiler-grpc - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: protobuf-compiler-grpc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | high performance general RPC framework - protobuf plugin | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - python3-grpcio - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-grpcio from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GRPC system (Python 3) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - ruby-grpc - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ruby-grpc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GRPC system in Ruby | https://www.grpc.io/ - Debian apt - ruby-grpc-tools - 1.51.1-6: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ruby-grpc-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development tools for Ruby gRPC | https://www.grpc.io/ - Nix - grpc: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grpc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - libgrpc++-dev - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgrpc++-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | high performance general RPC framework (development) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - libgrpc++1.51t64 - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgrpc++1.51t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | high performance general RPC framework | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - libgrpc-dev - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgrpc-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | high performance general RPC framework (development) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - libgrpc29t64 - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgrpc29t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | high performance general RPC framework | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - protobuf-compiler-grpc - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: protobuf-compiler-grpc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | high performance general RPC framework - protobuf plugin | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - python3-grpcio - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-grpcio from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | GRPC system (Python 3) | https://www.grpc.io/ - Ubuntu apt - ruby-grpc - 1.51.1-4.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ruby-grpc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | GRPC system in Ruby | https://www.grpc.io/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - 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