I just recently installed a piece of software written in Go, from source, on Ubuntu 14.04. It wasn't so nice for a non-Go-programmer.
The instructions wanted me to download a binary tarball of Go and untar it directly into /usr/local. As if I would never need to uninstall it. Apparently even though the version of Go has changed several times since Ubuntu packaged it, they think this will be the last version ever, or something?
I ended up hunting for an Ubuntu PPA that had it instead. Of course all the accepted answers on Stack Overflow point to PPAs that don't exist anymore. A comment sitting at some tragically low score saying "hey, try this one instead?" pointed me to something that worked.
I think you dealt with it the first time and you've gotten used to it. (And maybe there's some nice way to get a newer version of Go when you already have Go.)
skybrian|9 years ago
rspeer|9 years ago
The instructions wanted me to download a binary tarball of Go and untar it directly into /usr/local. As if I would never need to uninstall it. Apparently even though the version of Go has changed several times since Ubuntu packaged it, they think this will be the last version ever, or something?
I ended up hunting for an Ubuntu PPA that had it instead. Of course all the accepted answers on Stack Overflow point to PPAs that don't exist anymore. A comment sitting at some tragically low score saying "hey, try this one instead?" pointed me to something that worked.
I think you dealt with it the first time and you've gotten used to it. (And maybe there's some nice way to get a newer version of Go when you already have Go.)