how do i upgrade to latest version of go?

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JM

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Apr 24, 2018, 6:57:10 PM4/24/18
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I currently have on my mac:

go version go1.9 darwin/amd64


and want to upgrade to the latest.


Thanks.

Dave Cheney

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Apr 24, 2018, 7:58:32 PM4/24/18
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It depends on how you installed ypthe previous version of go. Home brew is popular on the Mac so follow their instructions for upgrading a package installed via brew.

If you used one of the options from the golang org website, simply remove /usr/local/go and follow the instruction on the website to install go 1.10.1.

Lastly, unset GOROOT if you’ve set it.

Lucas Simon Rodrigues Magalhaes

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May 22, 2018, 7:29:59 PM5/22/18
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Hi, I'm having trouble updating the version through source code.

export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/home/lucas/go1.4
export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/workspace-go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

$ go version
go version go1.8.3 linux/amd64

When i run ./all.bash 

$ ./all.bash
Building Go cmd/dist using /home/lucas/go1.4.
Building Go toolchain1 using /home/lucas/go1.4.
Building Go bootstrap cmd/go (go_bootstrap) using Go toolchain1.
/home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/zosarch.go:3:9: package cfg; expected main
go tool dist: FAILED: /home/lucas/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/compile -std -pack -o /tmp/go-tool-dist-706454567/cmd/go/_go_.a -p main /home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go /home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/go11.go /home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/main.go /home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/zdefaultcc.go /home/lucas/go/src/cmd/go/zosarch.go: exit status

Tamás Gulácsi

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May 23, 2018, 12:34:23 AM5/23/18
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rm -rf ~/go/src
Then extract again.

karan singh

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May 23, 2018, 8:49:01 AM5/23/18
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