How to Set Up Go Environment

How Extreme can you Go with Golang?

Golang brought me here, for technical writing purposes, and I'm excited about this. Indeed a journey of a thousand miles start with one step and today I make my first stride.

Before starting coding in Go, you need to have Golang environment. I'll take you through a step-by-step guide on checking whether you have golang installed on your machine, uninstalling the installed version and installing the desired version.

First, download your desired IDE

Checking for any installation

• Run 'go version' command on your terminal

  You'll get a response like:

•   go version go1.13.8 linux/amd64
  

Uninstalling Go

• Locate Where Go files are stored by running:

•   which go
  

  You'll get the path to Go directory as in the code snippet bellow

  

  Then delete the Go directory by running

rm -rf /usr/bin/go

/usr/bin/go - being the path to Go directory

With that, you'll have Golang uninstalled.

Installing Go

• Download the desired Go version from Go official website

• Using your terminal, navigate to the downloads

• Extract the folder at the same time specifying the location for storage

•   sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.20.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  

• Add /usr/local/go/bin to the PATH environment variable

    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
  

Then Restart your machine

Done, you're reading to start coding in Go

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