On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:58:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I discovered that /usr/local/go was still version 1.11 for whatever reason >Ubuntu did not update that directory when I installed go via apt/dpkg
This is correct behaviour, see below. >I therefore downloaded >https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz into /tmp, >decompressed it, then moved the go/ directory to /usr/local (moving the old >version to /usr/local/go-1.11 just in case) In general it is a bad idea to mix both self-installed and distribution packaged versions of the same program unless you are aware of what you are doing and the likely repurcussions. If you are now using the version of Go that you downloaded and self installed (as indicated above) then make sure you have used apt/dpkg to remove the Ubuntu version that you installed in the past. More generally, distribution packages (whether apt/dpkg/rpm) do not install into /usr/local and thus installing the Ubuntu version of Go would not touch anything in /usr/local because, as the name suggests, /usr/local is meant for stuff the user has installed outside of the distribution package management system. So if you want to switch from self installed to the Ubuntu packaged version of Go, then it is up to you to clean up /usr/local of any previous non-dpkg installs of Go. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/iv1rkep3ukfd24au2uejfvecq7c0pba5o8%404ax.com.
