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| title: Go on NetBSD |
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| Go on NetBSD is fairly stable on the architectures below. However, some bugs remain; see the [issue tracker](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AOS-NetBSD) for details. |
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| | **Kernel version** | **Architectures** | **Initial support version** | **Final support version** | |
| | :-------------------- | :---------------- | :-------------------------- | :------------------------ | |
| | 8.0 or above | amd64, arm, 386 | | | |
| | 7.0 through 7.1 | amd64, arm, 386 | Go 1.3 _\*_ | | |
| | 6.0 through 6.1 | amd64, arm, 386 | Go 1.3 _\*_ | Go 1.9.7 | |
| | 5.0 through 5.2 (EOL) | amd64, 386 | Go 1 | Go 1.2.2 | |
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| _\*_ Go 1.5 or above is recommended. |
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| Support for the arm64 architecture is a work in progress, see https://go.dev/issue/30824. |
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| ## Go packages in pkgsrc |
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| [pkgsrc](https://pkgsrc.org/), the NetBSD package collection, contains up-to-date packages for released Go versions. The packages contain the version in the name (e.g. [`lang/go113`](http://pkgsrc.se/lang/go113)) so that multiple versions can be installed in parallel. [`lang/go`](http://pkgsrc.se/lang/go) is a meta-package that always depends on the default go version. |
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| Note that the `go` binary name is also installed with a version suffix. Install the [`pkgtools/pkg_alternatives`](http://pkgsrc.se/pkgtools/pkg_alternatives) package to get a `go` command symlink in your PATH. |
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| There are a number of packages for software written in Go in pkgsrc. At the moment, module-based builds are experimental, and packages are built using a GOPATH layout. |
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| ## Preparing NetBSD for Go |
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| - install NetBSD (remember to install pkgsrc in the last step) |
| - install shells/bash and devel/git (do `make package-install clean` in `/usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash` and `/usr/pkgsrc/devel/git`. |
| - Using binary packages: `pkgin install bash git` |
