Is there an easy way to update the version of golang installed?

[j...@j4r.org]

I was just wondering if there is an easy way to update golang, without just reinstalling it (ie. go update).

[Matt Silverlock]

https://github.com/moovweb/gvm may be useful. Otherwise, Homebrew if you're using OS X.

Other than that, an uninstall -> reinstall isn't really a big problem with Go. You don't need to reinstall your packages, and it's rare for any package to have issues between versions of Go due to the Go 1 guarantee (backwards compat/stable API).

PS: Most languages don't provide a way to upgrade their runtime/VM/etc with a one-liner. It's generally left for package managers to handle (because why reinvent the wheel?)

[minux]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:01 PM, <j...@j4r.org> wrote:

I was just wondering if there is an easy way to update golang, without just reinstalling it (ie. go update).

The answer depends on how you installed Go on your system.

But the general advice is that, if you care about updating Go, and don't want to wait for your package manager

to update, you should checkout the Go source code repository and build it in the repository.

I think most of the Go authors do this, and Go has excellent support for this form of installation (actually, because

Go installs everything under $GOROOT (/bin, /pkg), the Go repository clone is farily self-contained, you don't

even need to use root to "install" Go in this case. 

[Mandolyte]

If you can use deb packages, consider godeb by Gustavo Niemeyer. documentation at:

http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go

[dsav...@gmail.com]

there are no pre-built packages for RedHat, are there?

[Jacek Furmankiewicz]

Fedora is very up to date,

after doing

yum install golang

any subsequent

yum update

will keep you up to date fairly quickly.