tgpt is open source under the GPL-3.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

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What is tgpt written in?

tgpt is primarily written in Go. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/aandrew-me/tgpt, and it has 3,261 GitHub stars.

tgpt: Open Source AI Interaction & Interfaces

tgpt is a free, open source ai interaction & interfaces project written in Go and released under GPL-3.0. It has 3,261 GitHub stars, 346 forks and 12 open issues, and was last pushed 4 days ago. On this registry it ranks #72 of 113 tracked projects in AI Interaction & Interfaces, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

tgpt 🤖

Arch Linux package Chocolatey Version Homebrew Formula Version

tgpt is a Cross-platform Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use AI in your Terminal.

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Installation ⏬

Download for GNU/Linux 🐧 or MacOS 🍎

The default download location is /usr/local/bin, but you can change it in the command to use a different location. However, make sure the location is added to your PATH environment variable for easy accessibility.

You can download it with the following command:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/main/install | bash -s /usr/local/bin

If you are using Arch Linux, you can install with pacman:

pacman -S tgpt

Install with Homebrew

brew install tgpt

FreeBSD 😈

To install the port:

cd /usr/ports/www/tgpt/ && make install clean

To install the package, run one of these commands:

pkg install www/tgpt
pkg install tgpt

Install with Go

You need to add the Go install directory to your system's shell path.

go install github.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/v2@latest

Windows 🪟

Installation Script

Open Powershell, copy and paste the command and press Enter to install.

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/refs/heads/main/install-win.ps1 | iex

Uninstall with

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/refs/heads/main/install-win.ps1))) -Uninstall

Scoop: Package installation with Scoop can be done using the following command:

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/main/tgpt.json

Chocolatey
```
choco install tgpt
```

From Release

You can download the executable for your operating system, rename it to tgpt (or any other desired name), and then execute it by typing ./tgpt while in that directory. Alternatively, you can add it to your PATH environmental variable and then execute it by simply typing tgpt.

Updating ⬆️

If you installed the program with the installation script (GNU/Linux, macOS, or Windows), you may update it with:

tgpt -u

(On GNU/Linux and macOS, it may require admin privileges depending on the install location.)

If you installed using a package manager (Homebrew, Pacman, Scoop, Chocolatey, Go), please update using your package manager's update command (e.g. brew upgrade tgpt, pacman -Syu tgpt, scoop update tgpt, choco upgrade tgpt, or go install github.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/v2@latest).

Usage

Proxy

Support:

1. Environment variable

http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY with following available formats:

Http Proxy [ http://ip:port ]
Http Auth [ http://user:pass@ip:port ]
Socks5 Proxy [ socks5://ip:port ]
Socks5 Auth [ socks5://user:pass@ip:port ]

2. Configuration file

Supported file locations:

./proxy.txt (in the same directory from where you are executing)
~/.config/tgpt/proxy.txt

Example:

http://127.0.0.1:8080

Uninstalling

If you installed with the install script, you can execute the following command to remove the tgpt executable

sudo rm $(which tgpt)

Configuration file is usually located in ~/.config/tgpt on GNU/Linux Systems and in "Library/Application Support/tgpt" on MacOS