Installation

Binaries

To get the binary just download the latest release for your OS/Arch from the release page and put the binary somewhere convenient. lego does not assume anything about the location you run it from.

From Docker

docker run goacme/lego -h

From package managers

ArchLinux (official):
```
pacman -S lego
```
ArchLinux (AUR) (official):
```
yay -S lego-bin
```
Snap (official):
```
sudo snap install lego
```
Note: The snap can only write to the /var/snap/lego/common/.lego directory.
FreeBSD (Ports) (unofficial):
```
pkg install lego
```
Gentoo (unofficial):

You can enable GURU repository and then:
```
emerge app-crypt/lego
```
Homebrew (unofficial):
```
brew install lego
```
or
```
pkg install lego
```
OpenBSD (Ports) (unofficial):
```
pkg_add lego
```

From sources

Requirements:

go1.22+.
environment variable: GO111MODULE=on

To install the latest version from sources, just run:

go install github.com/go-acme/lego/v4/cmd/lego@latest

git clone git@github.com:go-acme/lego.git
cd lego
make        # tests + doc + build
make build  # only build