Overview

GO is available to be installed on Win, Mac, and Linux platforms. GO can be installed on MAC in three ways

• Using archive
• Using brew
• Using .pkg installer

Let’s look at all the three ways

Using .pkg installer

Install

• Download the MAC pkg installer from here – https://golang.org/dl/. Double click the .pkg file and follow the onscreen instructions. Once finished GO will be installed in the below directory.

/usr/local/go

• The installer will also add ‘/usr/local/go/bin’  to your env PATH variable. This is the directory where the GO binary resides. Relaunch terminal for changes to take effect

Test Installation:

• Relaunch the terminal and type the command ‘which go’ in the terminal.It will output /usr/local/go/bin/go.  This is location of go binary.

• Try running the ‘go version’ command. It will output the current GO Version

Uninstall

To uninstall do below two steps:

rm -rf /usr/local/go      //Will require sudo permission
rm -rf /etc/paths.do/go   //Will require sudo permission. This action deletes will remove /usr/local/go/bin from PATH env

Using archive

Install

• Download the archive of latest version of GO from here  – https://golang.org/dl/. After downloading untar it at the location /usr/local. You can run the below command to untar

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz

• After the untar, the below path will contain the go binary ‘/usr/local/go/bin’. You have to add this location to your .bashrc. Open your .bashrc make the below entry

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

Test Installation

• Relaunch the terminal and type command ‘which go’ in the terminal. It will output /usr/local/go/bin/go.  This is the location of GO binary.

• Try running the ‘go version’ command. It will output the current GO Version

• Try running ‘go’ command as well. It will output

Go is a tool for managing Go source code.

Usage:

go  [arguments]
.....

Uninstall

To uninstall do below two steps

• Run below command to remove the files. It will require sudo permission

rm -rf /usr/local/go 

• Remove the below entry from the .bashrc file

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

Using brew

Install

Simplest way to install GO on MAC is using the brew.

brew install go

Test Installation

• Relaunch the terminal and type command ‘which go’ in the terminal.It will output /usr/local/go/bin/go.  This is the location of GO binary.

• Try running the ‘go version’ command. It will output the current GO Version

Uninstall

To uninstall simple run command

brew uninstall go