kerolloz/go-installer

Go-Installer: Effortless Golang Installation with One Command! 🚀

Kerollos Magdy

Mostly fixing bugs or creating new ones 🐞

🔹 I’m currently learning GoLang 💙
🔸 I like reading 📘
🔹 I would like to work with Node.js 💚 (preferably in TS), Ruby 💎 & Python 🐍
🔸 In love with OpenSource , Linux 🐧 & Problem Solving 💡
🔹 Ask me anything 💭

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go-installer's Issues

Raspberry PI - downloaded index.html

Hi,
I'm trying to use the script on a Raspberry PI, and this is the result that I get:

Am I doing something wrong? I've tried to both download it and executing it directly.

Broken installation

Installing without root shows fails and asks for root.

Running with sudo installs to /root/ making it inaccessible to other users.

handle installing versions with non-numerical values

Trying to install versions like go1.19rc1 and go1.19beta1 gives an error because we check if the specified version matches the three numbers, separated by two dots format (e.g. 1.2.3). We can skip the regex matching and depend only on seeing if the selected version exists on the website.

go version 1.16

Hi, I latest version of go is 1.16 which means the current version regex is not working with it. Can you fix it please? Thanks.

add more features and functionality

User can :

• #12
• choose whether to remove the installer(the downloaded package file) or not after installation
• specify the place of extracting go binary (GOROOT) && workplace(GOPATH).
• #11

.bashrc fills with exports

If the installation script from https://git.io/go-installer is run multiple times. Exports are keep appending to .bashrc.
This is the result after 2 installations

export GOROOT=/home/tango/.go
export GOPATH=/home/tango/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin
export GOROOT=/home/tango/.go
export GOPATH=/home/tango/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

I am using ansible-playbook to install if it makes any difference:

- name: Install GO
  shell: curl -sL https://git.io/go-installer | bash -

go-installer fail install on VPS ubuntu x86_64

Hello .

I get this error :

What can i do ?

add tests using github actions

• create GitHub actions tests
• add build status badge to the README

specify the version of go to be installed