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`dep` is a dependency management tool for Go. It requires Go 1.9 or newer to compile.

`dep` was the "official experiment." The Go toolchain, as of 1.11, has adopted
an approach that sharply diverges from `dep`. As a result, we are continuing
development of `dep`, but gearing work primarily towards the development of an
alternative prototype for versioning behavior in the toolchain.
`dep` was initially developed to experiment with a new dependency management system
for Go; but, as of Go 1.11, **the Go project has officially adopted a different approach,
based on the concept of Modules**, which is described in a [series of posts](https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules)
published on [blog.golang.org](https://blog.golang.org).

For guides and reference materials about `dep`, see [the
documentation](https://golang.github.io/dep).
For guides and reference materials about `dep`, see [the documentation](https://golang.github.io/dep).

## Installation

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