# Creating debs and rpms with Go

DevFeed: [Creating debs and rpms with Go](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/creating-debs-and-rpms-with-go-37816.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/nfpm/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces nfpm, a Go-based alternative to fpm for generating software packages. It explains nfpm's library and binary interfaces, its integration with GoReleaser, design decisions, package-format support, and plans for acceptance tests and additional formats.

## Source excerpt

I've been working on GoReleaser for more than a year now, and one of the things that was bothering me the most was fpm.