Command not found go — on Mac after installing Go

Question

I want to use Go, but I\'m having trouble running the go command. I installed go1.5.2 darwin/amd64, but when I run the command go version, I get an error in the ter

Answer 1

For bash, you should edit the .bashrc file and add the abobe mentioned line:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Answer 2

In my case I was not having ~/.zshrc profile file. Followed below steps to make it work.

Mac os version : Mojave (10.14.6)

Go version : go1.13.1 darwin/amd64

Reference link : https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-go-programming-language-on-mac-os-x/

As mentioned in link, when i was executing "go env" command, it was throwing error "go command not found". Adding "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" in "~/.bashrc" profile file didn't do any magic!!

step 1 : Create .zshrc profile under home path.

$ cd /User/xxxx (Eg : /User/tapan)

$ touch .zshrc

step 2 : append 'PATH' with go in .zshrc file.

$ vim .zshrc

$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

step 3 : source your .zshrc file

$ source ~/.zshrc

step 4 : execute "go env" command, you should be able to see local environment details.

$ go env

Answer 3

Add the following line to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile file at the end on your Mac

alias go="/usr/local/go/bin/go"

And in the Terminal

source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile in an existing terminal session. Or to see the new changes you can also re-open a new terminal session.

Answer 4

I kept running into issues and followed the steps on here and finally got a working solution: http://totzyuta.github.io/blog/2015/06/21/installing-go-by-homebrew-on-mac-os-x/

Install w/brew:

brew install golang

Edit bash_profile and add following paths:

nano ~/.bash_profile

export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export GOPATH=$HOME/.go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

Source it:

source ~/.bash_profile

Then restart terminal

go version

Output: go version go1.12 darwin/amd64

Answer 5

Like bjhaid mentioned in the comments above:

This is happening because you must add your PATH to your ~/.zshrc file.

in the ~/.zshrc you should add the line:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

you should then source you .zshrc file:

. ~/.zshrc

Answer 6

Add Go PATH to your ~/.zshrc file. Open file to edit as -

vim ~/.zshrc

in the ~/.zshrc you should add the line:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Once done, close and reopen terminal and you are good to go. For test, you can do -

go version

It will show output something like -

go version go1.15.1 darwin/amd64