# Install geoserver with Homebrew, Nix, winget

Java server to share and edit geospatial data. Version 3.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-13. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#geoserver.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:geoserver
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install geoserver
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#geoserver
```

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

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id OSGeo.GeoServer -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: OSGeo.GeoServer from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:geoserver
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Source summary:** Java server to share and edit geospatial data
- **Homepage:** <https://geoserver.org/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-13T23:34:55+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- geoserver (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.0.0
## Project history and usage

GeoServer is a Java server for publishing, editing, and serving geospatial data through open geospatial web-service standards. Its history is closely tied to the Java GIS stack, GeoTools, and the broader open-source geospatial community around PostGIS, QGIS, OpenLayers, and OSGeo.

### Project history

GeoServer began in 2001 at The Open Planning Project, a New York nonprofit technology incubator that wanted spatial-data sharing tools for civic participation and transparent government. The project grew alongside GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit founded by people involved with GeoServer, which supplied data-source support such as shapefiles and databases.

The project evolved during the same period that OGC web-service standards such as Web Feature Service and Web Map Service were being defined. GeoServer's later move into the Open Source Geospatial Foundation gave the project a neutral collaboration home in the open-source GIS ecosystem.

### Adoption history

GeoServer became significant because it connected open spatial databases, desktop GIS, browser mapping, and standard OGC service protocols. Practitioners could publish PostGIS, shapefile, GeoTIFF, and other datasets without building a custom map server for each deployment.

### How it is used

Administrators use GeoServer to create workspaces, register data stores, publish layers, style maps, and expose services such as WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS, and OGC API endpoints. Developers and GIS teams use it in local stacks, test fixtures, and production deployments that need standards-based geospatial publishing.

### Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, GeoServer is the server component that turns a local machine or CI environment into an OGC service endpoint. A formula-managed install makes it easier to reproduce a Java geospatial stack without hand-assembling the web application and its supporting scripts.

### Timeline

- 2001: GeoServer was started by The Open Planning Project.
- 2000s: GeoServer grew with GeoTools and related open-source GIS projects such as PostGIS, QGIS, and OpenLayers.
- After project growth: GeoServer joined the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

### Related projects

- GeoTools, PostGIS, QGIS, OpenLayers, OGC WMS, OGC WFS, OGC WCS

### Sources

- <https://docs.geoserver.org/>
- <https://docs.geoserver.org/main/en/user/introduction/history/>
- <https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver>
- <https://www.osgeo.org/projects/geoserver/>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - geoserver: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/geoserver/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - OSGeo.GeoServer: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: OSGeo.GeoServer from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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