The simple no fuss solution to your Go ambitions.

go-init:

• Provides option to select the version of go to be downloaded.
• Downloads appropriate go binary of your selected version for your platform from official google source.
• Extracts the binary and runs it,
• Setups $GOROOT and $GOPATH by entering required path variables into your zsh or bash shell automatically.
• Removes the downloaded .gz file and cleans things up.
• Remove past installations using the script.

It is written with an aim to fasten golang setup.

• Install
• Usage
• Example
• Where it sets $GOROOT and $GOPATH ?

# wget or curl the script
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solodynamo/go-init/master/goinit.sh
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solodynamo/go-init/master/goinit.sh > goinit.sh

# Alternatively you can clone the repo and use it.
$ git clone git@github.com:solodynamo/go-init.git

# Do this
$ sudo chmod +x goinit.sh

• install go

./goinit.sh

• removes go

./goinit.sh -goaway

Path set for $GOROOT and $GOPATH

export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
export GOPATH=$HOME/goworkspace
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Always do :)

If you see a halt after running the script, type exit and enter and keep doing this until things are done :)

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