A proof-of-concept command-line installer for Go.
This installer is designed to both install Go as well as do the initial configuration of setting up the right environment variables and paths.
It will install the Go distribution (tools & stdlib) to “/.go” inside your home directory by default.
It will setup “$HOME/go” as your GOPATH. This is where third party libraries and apps will be installed as well as where you will write your Go code.
If Go is already installed via this installer it will upgrade it to the latest version of Go.
Currently the installer supports Windows, *nix and macOS on x86 & x64. It supports Bash and Zsh on all of these platforms as well as powershell & cmd.exe on Windows.
Windows Powershell/cmd.exe:
(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://get.golang.org/installer.exe', 'installer.exe'); Start-Process -Wait -NonewWindow installer.exe; Remove-Item installer.exe
Shell (Linux/macOS/Windows):
curl -LO https://get.golang.org/$(uname)/go_installer && chmod +x go_installer && ./go_installer && rm go_installer
There are integration tests in main_test.go
. Please add more tests there.
The Dockerfile automatically builds the binary, moves it to /usr/local/bin/getgo
and then unsets $GOPATH
and removes all $GOPATH
from $PATH
.
$ docker build --rm --force-rm -t getgo . ... $ docker run --rm -it getgo bash root@78425260fad0:~# getgo -v Welcome to the Go installer! Downloading Go version go1.8.3 to /usr/local/go This may take a bit of time... Adding "export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin" to /root/.bashrc Downloaded! Setting up GOPATH Adding "export GOPATH=/root/go" to /root/.bashrc Adding "export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/root/go/bin" to /root/.bashrc GOPATH has been setup! root@78425260fad0:~# which go /usr/local/go/bin/go root@78425260fad0:~# echo $GOPATH /root/go root@78425260fad0:~# echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/root/go/bin
To upload a new release of getgo, run ./make.bash && ./upload.bash
.