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Installation Go Language

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Go

Installation​

  1. Go to https://go.dev/dl/.
  2. From the stable versions, download the archive for your OS. Let's say go1.23.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz for Linux.
  3. Make an sdk folder in your home directory, ~/sdk. /home/your-username/sdk for the full path.
  4. Extract the downloaded Go archive file to its version. Here is the full path, /home/your-username/sdk/go1.23.5/<extracted Go files>.
  5. Create a symbolic link to /usr/local/go .
    • For Linux or macOS
      you can customize this command to your needs, sudo ln -s /home/your-username/sdk/go1.23.5 /usr/local/go.
    • For Windows
      you can append ~/sdk/go1.23.5 to the PATH in System Variables.
  6. Open your terminal and verify it, go version.

Change GoLang Version​

You can install it by the CLI instead of downloading the archived file in the web browser because your OS already has GoLang. Let's say you want to use the legacy version of GoLang, Go 1.18.10.

  1. go install golang.org/dl/go1.23.5@latest
  2. go1.23.5 download
  3. Remove the current symbolic link,
    • For linux/mac
      sudo rm -f /usr/local/go .
    Create the new one, sudo ln -s /home/your-username/sdk/go1.23.5 /usr/local/go
    • For Windows,
      you can change the GOROOT and PATH in System Variables.

System Variables​

It is better to put GOPATH and GOROOT into System Variables and append them into the PATH.

export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
export GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH"

Linux​

  1. You can create a file of .bash_profile in your home directory if the file does not exist
  2. Copy and paste the commands above to the file. Save and close.
  3. Put source ~/.bash_profile at the end of the ~/.bashrc file.

macOS​

  1. You can create a file of .zprofile in your home directory if the file does not exist
  2. Copy and paste the commands above to the file. Save and close.

Windows​

You can put them on System Variables.

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