goversion is a simple version management tool.
Since go maintains backward compatibility, it is possible to build past version sources with the latest go version. Therefore, the concept of goversion is to make it easy to bring your local go version up to the latest version.
There is also a way to install previous versions of go as a command. But this method is very forgettable. For this reason, goversion provides a command that makes it easy.
Note Since go's install requires administrator rights, move it to a directory where administrators can run it.
go install github.com/komem3/goversion@latest && sudo mv $(go env GOPATH)/bin/goversion /usr/local/bin/
- check latest version.
goversion -latest
- upgrade version
sudo goversion -upgrade
- check version
goversion -ls-remote | grep 1.16
- install specify version
goversion -install go1.16.15
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