canha/golang-tools-install-script

Simple Bash script to automate Go language tools single user installation or even removal.

golang-tools-install-script

Bash script to automate installation and removal of single-user Go language tools.

Feel free to change the variables on the beginning to match whatever version of Go you need.

Tested working on:

• ✅ Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04
• ✅ macOS Sierra (10.12) to Big Sur (11.3)

Supported shells:

• Bash, fish, Zsh

🔨 Requirements

• wget or curl
• Bash shell

⏩ Install

Download and run with wget or curl. Here's the short version using the official git.io shortening:

# Linux typically has wget installed
wget -q -O - https://git.io/vQhTU | bash

# macOS typically has curl installed
curl -L https://git.io/vQhTU | bash

Or, if you are more comfortable with the raw URL:

wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script/master/goinstall.sh | bash

# or...
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script/master/goinstall.sh | bash

📦 Install a custom Go version

Pass the --version option into the script including the version that you wish to install.

Example:

wget -q -O - https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --version 1.18

# or...
curl -L https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --version 1.18

🚫 Uninstall

Pass the --remove option into the script:

wget -q -O - https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --remove

# or...
curl -L https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --remove

📝 Notes

By default, the script will create .go and go folders on your home directory and add the needed variables and PATH expansion.

$HOME/.go is the directory where Go will be installed to.

$HOME/go is the default workspace directory.

Read more about the workspace.

In order to install Go into another location, set the environment variables $GOROOT and $GOPATH before (un)installing:

export GOROOT=/opt/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/go

golang-tools-install-script's Issues

script doesn't parse mkdir properly

Line 58: mkdir -p "$HOME/go/{src,pkg,bin}"

This actually produces a folder at ~/go/ called "{src,pkg,bin}", not three separate folders.

I suggest changing the line to:

for folder in {src,pkg,bin};do mkdir -p ${folder};done

Syntax error if `profile` file doesn't have trailing newline

Hey thanks for putting this together. Wanted to let you know about a bug that exists when the profile file (e.g. .zshrc doesn't have a trailing newline. This script writes Go path variables to the end like so:

# GoLang
export GOROOT=/Users/user/.go
export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
export GOPATH=/Users/user/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH

Say there's no trailing newline in that file and the last line happens to be something like:

export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=16000"

That results in this script writing:

export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=16000"# GoLang
export GOROOT=/Users/user/.go
export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
export GOPATH=/Users/user/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH

Which will cause a bad option error for any node apps launching from the console. That likely affects other variables at the end as well.

Add Source command in the script itself

Can we add source $shell_profile at the end of the script to remove this manual step to be handled by user ?

Can't show go version

Hi ,canha
i run your script to setup go in my ubuntu machine . i'm just trying to check go version from konsole
but it showing command not found and how can i run my first program in go please help me regrading this

Not working correct on Raspberry Pi

Hello, i made this changes for working right in Raspberry Pi:

• Added a new case for armv7

"armv7")
ARCH=armv6l
;;
"armv7l")
ARCH=armv6l
;;

• Change download link for: https://dl.google.com/go/

Readme Doc should have instructions for use of --version

The readme should have a section for how to use --version when piping to bash.

Example

wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script/master/goinstall.sh \ | bash -s -- --version 1.13.1

--remove $GOPATH

When removing the Go, shouldn't the script handle the $GOPATH and remove it automatically which would be $HOME/go because in the current script when we reinstall it asks to delete $GOPATH manually?

Problem when downloading from storage.googleapis.com

I love this script. I've been using it for years. But today (and some other times also) I get a 403 Forbidden error while tring to execute it on my Debian 11 VPS:

`yamn@debian:~/golang-tools-install-script-master$ bash goinstall.sh

Downloading go1.20.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz ...
--2023-11-09 10:45:18-- https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.20.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Resolving storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)... 2a00:1450:400e:80f::201b, 2a00:1450:400e:811::201b, 2a00:1450:400e:805::201b, ...
Connecting to storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)|2a00:1450:400e:80f::201b|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2023-11-09 10:45:18 ERROR 403: Forbidden.`

Can you help?

SEC3

Install latest go version automatically

It would be useful if I can add another argument to install the latest go version. I.e. --version latest

Why is install dir different than the manual installation directory?

Hello this is a great script but I have a fundamental question.

I see the script sets GOROOT="$HOME/.go" for the install dir and GOROOT variable.
According to docs "This is usually" /usr/local/go

Why this difference?

Install Go 1.19 by default

https://go.dev/blog/go1.19

Go 1.19 is released!

Add fish testing support to Travis

With new Implementation of FISH Shell support in PR #34 we need to implement FISH testing support in Travis CI.

Install Go 1.18 by default

https://go.dev/blog/go1.18

Not working in Raspbian OS

uname -m for this OS gives me i686.

But since there is no https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.1.linux-i686.tar.gz, the download and installation failed.

Upon installing golang via snap, the go ver showed me that it is actually 386 architecture.

So are they both the same 🤔

Anyhow, I removed the snap version, manually set arch to 386 and ran the script and everything is working as expected.

https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.1.linux-386.tar.gz

consider installing git as dependency for "go get"

$> curl -L https://git.io/vQhTU | bash
$> source /root/.bashr
$> go get -u github.com/cli/cli
go: missing Git command. See https://golang.org/s/gogetcmd
package github.com/cli/cli: exec: "git": executable file not found in $PATH

maybe a message would be enough tho