neonrust / goin

A helping hand when installing and managing Go.

GOIN

GO INstaller.

It's tested (and tuned) to run on Ubuntu. Requires Python 3.x.

Help

# goin --help
Usage: goin [command] [options]

With no arguments, installs the latest version.

General options:
  -y, -f             Answer "Yes" to all confirmation questions

Commands:
  [install]          Install matching version
  list               List locally installed versions
  available          List available versions for installation
  uninstall VER      Uninstall a installed version
  switch VER         Switch to/activate the specified installed version

Version selection options:
  --arch=ARCH        Select/filter architechture (amd64)
  --os=OS            Select/filter OS (linux)
  --version=VER, -v VER
                     Select/filter version (None)
                     Regular expression autodetected

Installation options:
  --prefix=PATH, -p PATH
                     Use PATH as (un)install prefix (/home/andjonss/.local)
  --activate         Activate the just-installed version (default: auto)
  --no-activate      Skip activation of just-installed version
  --alt-prio         If using 'update-alternatives', set priority
                     for the installed configurations
  --bin-dir          Set directory for symlinks (/home/andjonss/.local/bin)
  --symlink, -s      Use symlinks (even if 'update-alternatives' exist)
  --tmp=DIR          Use DIR as temporary storage during download (/tmp)

Installing

Without arguments, it installs the latest available version, for the current user:

goin --version 1.15.4                                                                           ~
Fetching downloads... done

Selected: 1.15.4  linux/amd64
Downloading: 1.15.4  [linux/amd64]   /dl/go1.15.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 100%  115 MiB 
Extracting archive... OK
Installing as: /home/andjonss/.local/go-1.15.4
   /home/myself/.local/bin/gofmt -> /home/myself/.local/go-1.15.4/bin/gofmt
   /home/myself/.local/bin/go -> /home/myself/.local/go-1.15.4/bin/go

The -p/--prefix option allows using a system-global prefix, e.g. /usr/local. This will of course require root privileges (i.e. use 'sudo')

Listing installed versions:

#./goin list
Installed Go versions in /usr/local:
  /home/myself/.local/go-1.15.4  (go, gofmt)