Installation Notes

MAC OS X

On my MAC OS X, I ended up installing and using Go from the official .dmg package from the Go website.

Installation Issues

I have had bad experience when trying to use Homebrew or GVM. Probably because I tried to install new installation option without properly cleaning everything from the previous one.

The following files may have “traces” of different settings:

• ~/.bash_profile
• ~/.bashrc
• ~/.profile

My Go environment variables are all defined in ~/.bash_profile.

Troubleshooting

Uninstalling Go

Uninstalling Golang from Mac OS X machine can be done easily. All you to do is the remove this directory /usr/local/go. Doing this will remove the binaries for Golang but not the residue files which you have installed elsewhere.

To remove the additional files, you need to check the environment variables for GOPATH and GOROOT. Those the files that you need to delete as well if you plan to remove Golang entirely.

Version Mismatch During Build

go build produces the following error message:

compile: version "go1.10.3" does not match go tool version "go1.11"

• Check if you have more than one version of Go installed (e.g. .dmg, Homebrew, or gvm). If more than one, remove all except the one you want to use.
• Analyse:
  • which go
  • go version
  • go env
  • cat /usr/local/go/VERSION

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