# Install glider with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman

Forward proxy with multiple protocols support. Version 0.16.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#glider.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:glider
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install glider
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install glider
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/glider/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#glider
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S glider
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:glider
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.16.4
- **Source summary:** Forward proxy with multiple protocols support
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/nadoo/glider>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/nadoo/glider>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T14:57:50+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- glider (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.16.4
## Project history and usage

glider is a Go-based forward proxy and protocol-conversion tool with DNS, DHCP, routing-rule, health-check, and load-balancing features. Its history is best documented by its GitHub repository and README rather than by a separate project-history site.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in July 2017 and describes glider as a forward proxy with support for multiple protocols plus DNS, DHCP, and ipset management features. The project developed around one executable that can listen locally and forward traffic through one or more upstream forwarders.

### Adoption history

glider's adoption appears in package-manager availability across Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Arch-derived systems, plus binary and Docker distribution from the upstream README. Its appeal is strongest for users who want a compact proxy chain tool rather than a full appliance.

### How it is used

Practitioners run `glider` with `-listen`, `-forward`, and optional `-config` arguments. Common setups create HTTP or SOCKS5 listeners, chain forwarders, select failover or latency strategies, serve DNS through proxy rules, or use Linux redirect and tproxy modes.

Because proxy URLs may embed user names, passwords, certificates, and upstream endpoints, the package's config file can also serve as a credential-bearing file in managed installations.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, glider is a self-contained Go networking binary with many runtime modes and few packaging surfaces. The main thing to preserve is the CLI behavior, service config path, and protocol support advertised by upstream.

### Timeline

- 2017: GitHub repository created.
- 2010s: Project grew around proxy listeners, chained forwarders, DNS forwarding, and ipset features.
- 2020s: README documented broader protocol support including HTTP, SOCKS, Shadowsocks, Trojan, VLESS, VMess, SSH, TCP, UDP, TLS, KCP, WebSocket, and Linux redirect modes.

### Related projects

- glider overlaps with SOCKS and HTTP proxy tools, dnsmasq-style DNS/DHCP setups, Shadowsocks-family clients, and Linux transparent-proxy routing tools.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/nadoo/glider>
- <https://github.com/nadoo/glider>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nadoo/glider/main/README.md>


## Security Notes

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## 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: /etc/glider/glider.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: /etc/glider/glider.conf
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - glider: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gl/glider/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - glider - 0.16.4-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: glider from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A forward proxy with multiple protocols support | https://github.com/nadoo/glider
- MacPorts - glider: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/glider/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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