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Managing Go Installations#

Installing Go on Linux#

curl -L -O https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
mkdir -p $HOME/sdk
sudo tar -C $HOME/sdk -xzf go1.26.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
# strip leading tabs, don't expand variables, and don't interpret backslashes
cat <<-'EOF' >> $HOME/.bashrc.d/go.sh
  # Go environment
  if ! ["$PATH" =~ "$HOME/sdk/go/bin"](<../../"$PATH" =~ "$HOME/sdk/go/bin".md>); then
      PATH="$HOME/sdk/go/bin:$PATH"
  fi
  export PATH

  if ! ["$PATH" =~ "$HOME/go/bin"](<../../"$PATH" =~ "$HOME/go/bin".md>); then
      PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"
  fi
  export PATH
EOF

Install Go versions#

  • Using CGO requires Development Tools to be installed on Fedora (and likely other distros as well)
  • see Fedora Development Tools
go install golang.org/dl/go1.21.10@latest

$ go1.21.10 env
go1.21.10: not downloaded. Run 'go1.21.10 download' to install to ...

$ go1.21.10 download
Downloaded   0.0% (    3124 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded   1.0% (  720896 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded  24.6% (18152768 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded  47.3% (34914048 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded  70.7% (52166272 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded  96.7% (71384544 / 73785140 bytes) ...
Downloaded 100.0% (73785140 / 73785140 bytes)
Unpacking ...
Success. You may now run 'go1.21.10'

$ go1.21.10 env
set GO111MODULE=
...

Sources#