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Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

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why there is no "go update" feature yet? go: unknown subcommand "update" Run 'go help' for usage.

If you are building from source, it's very trivial to update. git pull, checkout the new tag and build.

Building from source gives you the awesome cross compilation features of Go, apart from easy updates and make it easy to see how specific features are implemented in the source. So highly recommend

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

This was in reference to Homebrew, though. In Homebrew, installing Go is simply: brew install go No sudo required, nor 'update' command required first, etc.

Sure, it's that simple until you need a specific non-default version. In cases like that I have found it easier to install from golang.org, that's all I was trying to say.
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