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Top 23 Go package-manager Projects

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  1. athens

    A Go module datastore and proxy (by gomods)

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  3. whalebrew

    Homebrew, but with Docker images

  4. glasskube

    🧊 The next generation Package Manager for Kubernetes 📦 Featuring a GUI and a CLI. Glasskube packages are dependency aware, GitOps ready and can get automatic updates via a central public package repository.

  5. timoni

    Timoni is a package manager for Kubernetes, powered by CUE and inspired by Helm.

  6. hermit

    🐚 Hermit manages isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects. (by cashapp)

    Project mention: Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-01

  7. pacseek

    A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages

  8. apx

    Apx (/à·peks/) is the default package manager in Vanilla OS. It is a wrapper around multiple package managers to install packages and run commands inside a managed container.

  9. zap

    :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager (by srevinsaju)

  10. lure

    The community repository missing from your Linux distro

  11. nami

    A clean and tidy decentralized package manager. (by txthinking)

  12. stew

    🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries.

  13. dbin

    📦 Poor man's package manager. +4164 statically linked binaries in the default repos [automated build repos: Go[+34k], Rust[+7k]] (amd64/arm64/riscv)! The easy to use, easy to get, suckless software distribution system.

  14. dalec

    📦 Produce secure packages and containers with declarative configurations

    Project mention: A Decade of Docker Containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-07

  15. kustomizer

    An experimental package manager for distributing Kubernetes configuration as OCI artifacts.

  16. luet

    :package: :whale: 0-dependency Container-based Package Manager using SAT solver and QLearning

  17. pig

    PostgreSQL Extension Package Manager

    Project mention: Show HN: PostgreSQL Extension Cloud | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11

  18. bramble

    Purely functional build system and package manager (by maxmcd)

  19. npackd

    Package manager for Microsoft Windows: Wiki, bug tracker, mirror of the default repositories

  20. parm

    Cross-platform package manager for GitHub Releases 🧀

    Project mention: Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists | dev.to | 2026-03-31

    parm is a binary package manager for GitHub Releases, written in Go by alxrw. You give it a repo (parm install owner/repo) and it finds the latest release, picks the right binary for your platform, downloads it, and symlinks it onto your PATH. No root access, no system package manager, no registry to maintain. It queries GitHub directly.

  21. rewinged

    rewinged is a self-hosted winget package source

  22. webman

    Add, remove, and manage different versions of web-distributed software binaries. No elevated permissions required!

  23. ore-light

    Lean, Bundler-compatible gem manager written in Go

    Project mention: ⚡️ setup-ruby-flash | dev.to | 2026-01-18

    A fast GitHub Action for fast Ruby environment setup using rv for Ruby installation and ore for gem management.

  24. minepkg

    Manage Minecraft mods with ease.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac

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  • Hermit: Manage isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects

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Index

What are some of the best open-source package-manager projects in Go? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 athens 4,770
2 whalebrew 4,240
3 glasskube 3,494
4 timoni 1,959
5 hermit 806
6 pacseek 641
7 apx 582
8 zap 586
9 lure 430
10 nami 352
11 stew 345
12 dbin 312
13 dalec 307
14 kustomizer 303
15 luet 299
16 pig 194
17 bramble 192
18 npackd 174
19 parm 139
20 rewinged 77
21 webman 65
22 ore-light 62
23 minepkg 46

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