# Install aurora with Homebrew, apt, scoop, winget
Beanstalkd queue server console. Version 2.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with ubuntu: sudo apt install aurora.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:aurora
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install aurora
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- Ubuntu apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install aurora
```
Evidence: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: aurora from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
### Windows
- Scoop (92%):
```sh
scoop install extras/aurora
```
Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/aurora.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id Aurora.Aurora -e
```
Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Aurora.Aurora from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:aurora
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2
- **Source summary:** Beanstalkd queue server console
- **Homepage:**
- **Repository:**
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T14:18:26-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- aurora (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.2
## Project history and usage
aurora is a Go web console for administering beanstalkd queue servers. It packages a browser UI and server-side Beanstalkd client into a single cross-platform binary, aimed at people who want a lightweight operational console rather than a full queue-management platform.
### Project history
The GitHub repository was created on 2016-10-09, and the release API shows version 1.0 published the same day. The README says aurora was created as a very simple and portable application for working with local or remote Beanstalkd servers, using Go so the compiler can produce zero-dependency binaries.
The README credits the web UI as originally based on ptrofimov/beanstalk_console and the Beanstalkd client on beanstalkd/go-beanstalk. The project therefore sits in a pragmatic lineage of small Beanstalkd admin tools, rebuilt as a single Go binary with a bundled web UI.
### Adoption history
aurora's adoption surface is binary distribution: the official site emphasizes macOS, Linux, and Windows support, single-binary installation, zero dependencies, and Homebrew installation. The supplied package-manager facts also show Scoop, Ubuntu, and winget entries.
### How it is used
Operators run aurora, open the printed local web URL, and manage local or remote Beanstalkd servers. The README lists features for viewing tubes, ready/delayed/buried jobs, job details, statistics, auto-refresh, moving or deleting jobs, pausing tubes, searching job data, and optional basic auth from aurora.toml.
### Why package nerds care
aurora is a tidy package-manager specimen: one binary, one adjacent TOML config, no runtime service stack beyond Beanstalkd and a browser. The interesting packaging detail is preserving the executable-relative aurora.toml default while also allowing -c for managed config locations.
### Timeline
- 2016: Repository initialized and version 1.0 released.
- 2016: Rapid 1.x releases followed through the first months of the project.
- 2021: Source headers still describe aurora as a Go cross-platform, zero-dependency Beanstalkd console.
- 2026: The official site continues to present aurora as a cross-platform Beanstalkd admin console.
### Related projects
- aurora is related to beanstalkd, beanstalkd/go-beanstalk, BurntSushi/toml, and ptrofimov/beanstalk_console, which the README credits as the original web UI basis.
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## Security Notes
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
## Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
## Configuration files
- Unix: aurora.toml in the directory containing the aurora executable, path passed with -c
- Windows: aurora.toml in the directory containing aurora.exe, path passed with -c
## Credential files
- Unix: [auth] section in aurora.toml in the directory containing the aurora executable, [auth] section in the file passed with -c
- Windows: [auth] section in aurora.toml in the directory containing aurora.exe, [auth] section in the file passed with -c
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Ubuntu apt - aurora - 1.9.4-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: aurora from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | communicate with an Aurora Magnetek Photovoltaic (solar) Power Inverter | http://www.curtronics.com/Solar/AuroraData.html
- Scoop - extras/aurora: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/aurora.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Aurora.Aurora: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Aurora.Aurora from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/aurora.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/aurora.yml)
## Sources
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph