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Chris Yeung
Chris Yeung

Reputation: 2723

Fail to install Go 1.2.1 in Mac OS X Mavericks

I followed the link to download Go 1.2.1 and tried to install in Mavericks OSX. After installing with the binary package, I cd into the path /usr/local/go and found all the executables. However when I try to run

go version

it returns

$ command not found: go

I am not sure what I did wrong but I can't find any resource to it. I also tried to follow this tutorial (link) but still failed. Any help?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3018

Answers (3)

user7707223
user7707223

Reputation:

On a Mac, after downloading the archive and running it, Go is by default installed at /usr/local/go. The next thing you do is to simply have export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin in your .profile. If run into something like $ command not found: go, just restart your terminal.

As far as I'm concerned the only mention of 

export GOROOT=$HOME/go1.X
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

is when you're installing a different location other than /usr/local/go according to the official installation instructions.

Upvotes: 0

Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali

Reputation: 222969

By default go is installed in /usr/local/go/bin. So I fixed the issue by adding this line in bash_profile:

  • Edit ~/.bash_profile (for example with nano ~/.bash_profile)
  • add export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
  • save the file, close and open the terminal

and it should work: 

$ go version
go version go1.4.2 darwin/amd64

Upvotes: 6

Evan
Evan

Reputation: 6555

If the binaries exist then the directory must not be in your $PATH variable. Per the tutorial you linked, make sure that the following two lines are in your shell profile: export GOROOT=/usr/local/go export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

Upvotes: 10

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