Installation :: Let’s Encrypt client and ACME library written in Go. (original) (raw)

• Binaries
• From Docker
• From package managers
• From sources

Binaries

To get the binary just download the latest release for your OS/Arch from the release page and put the binary somewhere convenient. lego does not assume anything about the location you run it from.

From Docker

docker run goacme/lego -h

From package managers

• ArchLinux (official):
• ArchLinux (AUR) (official):
• Snap (official):
  Note: The snap can only write to the /var/snap/lego/common/.lego directory.
• FreeBSD (Ports) (unofficial):
• Gentoo (unofficial):
  You can enable GURU repository and then:
• Homebrew (unofficial):
  or
• OpenBSD (Ports) (unofficial):

From sources

Requirements:

• go1.22+.
• environment variable: GO111MODULE=on

To install the latest version from sources, just run:

go install github.com/go-acme/lego/v4/cmd/lego@latest

or

git clone git@github.com:go-acme/lego.git
cd lego
make        # tests + doc + build
make build  # only build