Cannot install Go 1.4

[grandstairs]

Cannot install Go 1.4

[ryan-ju]

I found a workaround (on macos). Instead of doing the crazy bootstrapping chain, you can do this:

1. Download the .tar.gz file from the official site https://go.dev/dl/ and unpack it somewhere (it'll decompress to a go dir)
2. In a terminal add the go to PATH:

export PATH="<where your go dir is>/bin:$PATH"

3. Run gvm install go1.22.3 or whatever version you need.
4. Delete the go dir in step 1
5. Then run gvm use go1.22.3 --default. Otherwise it'll complain about invalid go version (you need to set a default, gvm doesn't set it for you).

Note the latest go actually requires >= 1.20 to compile

[kaykhan]

Did you find a fix?

[grandstairs]

No, I went back to using homebrew for now and just manually changing versions if needed.

$ which go
/opt/homebrew/bin/go
$ go version
go version go1.22.0 darwin/arm64

[Kyungminkim31]

I found a workaround (on macos). Instead of doing the crazy bootstrapping chain, you can do this:

1. Download the .tar.gz file from the official site https://go.dev/dl/ and unpack it somewhere (it'll decompress to a go dir)
2. In a terminal add the go to PATH:

export PATH="<where your go dir is>/bin:$PATH"

3. Run gvm install go1.22.3 or whatever version you need.
4. Delete the go dir in step 1
5. Then run gvm use go1.22.3 --default. Otherwise it'll complain about invalid go version (you need to set a default, gvm doesn't set it for you).

Note the latest go actually requires >= 1.20 to compile

This works perfectly! Thanks!

[mhazizk]

I found a workaround (on macos). Instead of doing the crazy bootstrapping chain, you can do this:

1. Download the .tar.gz file from the official site https://go.dev/dl/ and unpack it somewhere (it'll decompress to a go dir)
2. In a terminal add the go to PATH:

export PATH="<where your go dir is>/bin:$PATH"

3. Run gvm install go1.22.3 or whatever version you need.
4. Delete the go dir in step 1
5. Then run gvm use go1.22.3 --default. Otherwise it'll complain about invalid go version (you need to set a default, gvm doesn't set it for you).

Note the latest go actually requires >= 1.20 to compile

perfectly works!!! thank you