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

1. Go to the directory

   cd /usr/local
   

2. Remove it with super user privileges

   sudo rm -rf go
   

Answer 2

On a Mac-OS system

1. If you have used an installer, you can uninstall golang by using the same installer.
2. If you have installed from source

   rm -rf /usr/local/go
   rm -rf $(echo $GOPATH)
   

Then, remove all entries related to go i.e. GOROOT, GOPATH from ~/.bash_profile and run

source ~/.bash_profile

On a Linux system

rm -rf /usr/local/go
rm -rf $(echo $GOPATH)

Then, remove all entries related to go i.e. GOROOT, GOPATH from ~/.bashrc and run

source ~/.bashrc

Answer 3

Use this command to uninstall Golang for Ubuntu.

This will remove just the golang-go package itself.

sudo apt-get remove golang-go

Uninstall golang-go and its dependencies:

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

Answer 4

On linux we can do like this to remove go completely:

rm -rf "/usr/local/.go/"
rm -rf "/usr/local/go/"

These two command remove go and hidden .go files. Now we also have to update entries in shell profile.

Open your basic file. Mostly I open like this sudo gedit ~/.bashrc and remove all go mentions.

You can also do by sed command in ubuntu

sed -i '/# GoLang/d' .bashrc
sed -i '/export GOROOT/d' .bashrc
sed -i '/:$GOROOT/d' .bashrc
sed -i '/export GOPATH/d' .bashrc
sed -i '/:$GOPATH/d' .bashrc

It will remove Golang from everywhere. Also run this after running these command

source ~/.bash_profile

Tested on linux 18.04 also. That's All.

Answer 5

From the official install page -

To remove an existing Go installation from your system delete the go directory. This is usually /usr/local/go under Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD or c:\Go under Windows.

You should also remove the Go bin directory from your PATH environment variable. Under Linux and FreeBSD you should edit /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile. If you installed Go with the macOS package then you should remove the /etc/paths.d/go file. Windows users should read the section about setting environment variables under Windows.

Answer 6

only tab
rm -rvf /usr/local/go/
not works well, but
sudo rm -rvf /usr/local/go/
do.