GoLang Installation
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GoLang - Installation
(macOS) If you can avoid it, do not install go with homebrew at all.
And if the reason for using Homebrew is ease of updates, there’s always goup. https://github.com/lpar/goup
There are Go version managers (like goenv) that let you install multiple versions of go without polluting global PATH/GOBIN/GOPATH. https://github.com/go-nv/goenv
To add go lang to path
(Linux)
Run
[explorer436@explorer436-p50-20eqs27p03 ~]$ whereis go
go: /usr/bin/go /usr/lib/go /usr/src/debug/go
Grab the path and use it here.
export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin
Where does go get install packages?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50633092/where-does-go-get-install-packages
go env
You can get the path from GOMODCACHE
go env GOMODCACHE
Cleaning them up
go clean -modcache
go install command
https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/27
Sometimes, Binaries installed via go install are not accessible on path.
This should work by default but for now you can add to each step:
export PATH=${PATH}:`go env GOPATH`/bin