Installing GoThemis #

GoThemis can be installed with the usual go get. Additionally, Themis Core library has to be installed in your system as well.

Themis Core is available as a system package for Linux and macOS. Usually you want to install the stable package to benefit from automatic dependency management and security updates. However, you can also build and install the latest GoThemis from the source code.

Installing stable version on Linux #

The easiest way to install Themis on Linux is to use package repositories for your system. We build packages for a multitude of Linux distributions.

Add Cossack Labs package repositories to your system.
Install Themis Core development package.

For Debian, Ubuntu:
```
sudo apt install libthemis-dev
```
For CentOS, RHEL:
```
sudo yum install libthemis-devel
```

go get the GoThemis package:

go get github.com/cossacklabs/themis/gothemis

Once GoThemis is installed, you can try out code examples.

Installing stable version on macOS #

The easiest way to install ThemisPP on macOS is to use Homebrew.

Add Cossack Labs tap to your system:
```
brew tap cossacklabs/tap
```
Install Themis Core package:
```
brew install libthemis
```

go get the GoThemis package:

go get github.com/cossacklabs/themis/gothemis

Once GoThemis is installed, you can try out code examples.

Building latest version from source #

If the stable package version does not suit your needs, you can manually build and install the latest version of Themis from source code.

Build and install Themis Core library into your system.

Get the latest version of GoThemis with go get -u:

go get -u github.com/cossacklabs/themis/gothemis@master

Installing specific GoThemis versions #

GoThemis supports Go 1.11 modules since GoThemis 0.12. To get a specific release, use go get like this:

go get -u github.com/cossacklabs/themis/gothemis@v0.12.0

If you need an older version of GoThemis (0.11 or earlier), or if you use a legacy Go installation that does not support modules, you need to visit the GoThemis package in GOPATH and check out the specific branch. For example, to get GoThemis 0.10.0:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cossacklabs/themis/gothemis
git checkout 0.10.0