How to uninstall Golang?

Question

I tried the answer here Removed golang but go command still works?, but it didn\'t work (I can still run go)

Currently, when I run which go I see this o

Answer 1

For Windows 10:

1. Go to Apps in the Settings App.
2. Look for Go Programming Language * in the list and uninstall it.
3. Remove C:\Go\bin from your PATH environment variable (only if you don't plan on installing another version of golang)

Answer 2

You might try

rm -rvf /usr/local/go/

then remove any mention of go in e.g. your ~/.bashrc; then you need at least to logout and login.

However, be careful when doing that. You might break your system badly if something is wrong.

^{PS. I am assuming a Linux or POSIX system.}

Answer 3

On a Mac-OS Catalina

1. need to add sudo before rm -rf /usr/local/go sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go otherwise, we will run into permission denial.

2. sudo vim ~/.profile or sudo ~/.bash_profile remove export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/BIN or anything related to go lang

3. If you use Zsh shell, then you need to remove the above line to ~/.zshrc file.

Hope it helps you :)

Answer 4

Update August 2019

Found the official uninstall docs worked as expected (on Mac OSX).

$ which go
/usr/local/go/bin/go

In summary, to uninstall:

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
$ sudo rm /etc/paths.d/go

Then, did a fresh install with homebrew using brew install go. Now, i have:

 $ which go
/usr/local/bin/go

Answer 5

In MacOS, you can just do it with brew:

brew uninstall go
brew install go
brew upgrade go

Answer 6

I'm using Ubuntu. I spent a whole morning fixing this, tried all different solutions, when I type go version, it's still there, really annoying... Finally this worked for me, hope this will help!

sudo apt-get remove golang-go
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove golang-go