# Installer gnu-go avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de gnu-go pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gnu-go
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gnu-go
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gnugo
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: games/gnugo/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install gnugo
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: gnugo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install gnugo
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gnugo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gnugo
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gn/gnugo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S gnugo
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: gnugo from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install gnugo
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gnugo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:gnu-go
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.8
- **Résumé source:** Plays the game of Go
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- gnugo (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 3.8
## Historique du projet et usages

GNU Go is the GNU Project's free software program for playing the game of Go, distributed as a command-line engine with documented algorithms, protocol support, graphical-client integration, and developer-facing internals.

### Historique du projet

GNU Go developed in the late 1990s and 2000s as a free software answer to proprietary Computer Go programs. Its manual argues that before GNU Go, Go programs were commonly distributed only as binaries with secret algorithms, while GNU Go made its source and algorithms open for inspection, criticism, and improvement.

The manual names Daniel Bump, Gunnar Farneback, and Arend Bayer as maintainers for GNU Go 3.8, and lists a long chronological authorship chain beginning with Man Li and Wayne Iba. It also thanks Stuart Cracraft, Richard Stallman, and Man Lung Li for interest in making the program part of GNU.

### Historique d'adoption

The GNU Go home page states that GNU Go played thousands of games on NNGS and also appeared on LGS, WING, and KGS through volunteer clients. It describes GNU Go as a leading non-commercial Go program in tournaments it entered, reflecting its role as an accessible engine for both players and Computer Go developers.

Its adoption was helped by protocol and client support. The manual documents CGoban setup, lists free graphical clients such as Quarry, qGo, ccGo, RubyGo, Jago, FreeGoban, Mac GNU Go, and Gogui, and explains that GNU Go 3.0 introduced the Go Text Protocol while GMP remained widely used in tournaments.

### Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners use `gnugo` directly in ASCII mode, through graphical Go clients, as a GTP engine for programs and test harnesses, or as a source base for studying Computer Go algorithms. It reads and writes SGF, can load game records, generate moves for a side to play, set board size and komi, and expose developer traces for understanding move selection.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

GNU Go is package-relevant because it is a classic free software game engine with stable command-line behavior and protocol support. It gave Unix-like distributions a non-commercial Go opponent, a testable GTP engine, and a documented Computer Go codebase long before neural-network Go engines reshaped the field.

### Chronologie

- 1999-2008: GNU Go manual copyright span records active FSF-era development.
- GNU Go 3.0: Go Text Protocol introduced.
- 2009: GNU Go 3.8 released and manual generated.
- 2019: GNU Go web page update record remained tied to the 3.8 documentation set.

### Related projects

- CGoban and the Go Modem Protocol shaped early GUI and tournament use.
- Go Text Protocol became an interprocess protocol for Go engines and clients.
- SGF support connected GNU Go to the standard game-record format used by Go software.

### Sources

- <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html>
- <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_1.html>
- <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_17.html>
- <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_19.html>
- <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_3.html>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- MacPorts - gnugo: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: games/gnugo/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - gnugo - 3.8-13: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: gnugo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | play the game of Go | http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
- Nix - gnugo: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gn/gnugo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - gnugo - 3.8-11build2: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gnugo from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | play the game of Go | http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
- dnf - gnugo - 3.8-39.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gnugo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Text based go program | http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html
- pacman - gnugo - 3.8-8: installed executable or alias match | Arch Linux sync databases: gnugo from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Program that plays the game of Go | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
- zypper - gnugo - 1371149103.84a32e9c-3.10: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gnugo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Chinese Board Game "Go" | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnugo


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gnu-go.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gnu-go.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph