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@@ -14,33 +14,18 @@ under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file. Binary Distribution Notes -If you have just untarred a binary Go distribution, then there are some -environment variables you'll need to set in your .profile (or equivalent): +If you have just untarred a binary Go distribution, you need to set +the environment variable $GOROOT to the full path of the go +directory (the one containing this README). You can omit the +variable if you unpack it into /usr/local/go, or if you rebuild +from sources by running all.bash (see doc/install.html). +You should also add the Go binary directory $GOROOT/bin +to your shell's path. - GOOS should be set to your operating system (eg, linux), - GOARCH should be your processor architecture (eg, amd64), - GOROOT should be the directory you extracted the tarball to, - GOBIN should point to $GOROOT/bin. +For example, if you extracted the tar file into $HOME/go, you might +put the following in your .profile: -For example, if you downloaded the tarball - - go.release.YYYY-MM-DD.linux-amd64.tar.gz - -and extracted it to - - /home/username/go - -you would set the following variables: - - export GOOS=linux - export GOARCH=amd64 - export GOROOT=/home/username/go - export GOBIN=$GOROOT/bin - -See doc/install.html for more detail about these flags. - -Additionally, $GOROOT should be in your $PATH: - - export PATH=PATH:$GOROOT - + export GOROOT=$HOME/go + export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin +See doc/install.html for more details. |