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tpa10 opened this issue Nov 30, 2021 · 2 comments
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x/website: #49887

tpa10 opened this issue Nov 30, 2021 · 2 comments

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@tpa10
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tpa10 commented Nov 30, 2021

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://go.dev/doc/manage-install

What is your user agent?

NA (issue is with content, not with presentation)

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What did you do?

Following the provided example:
"To install additional Go versions, run the go install command, specifying the download location of the version you want to install. The following example illustrates with version 1.10.7:

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.10.7@latest
$ go1.10.7 download"

  1. Starting with version 1.15 installed:
    go version
    go version go1.15.14 linux/amd64
  2. Attempt to "install version 1.17.3
    go install golang.org/dl/g01.17.3@latest
    package golang.org/dl/g01.17.3@latest: can only use path@version syntax with 'go get'

What did you expect to see?

Clean install of the latest version.

What did you see instead?

The error message:
package golang.org/dl/g01.17.3@latest: can only use path@version syntax with 'go get'

@fzipp
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fzipp commented Nov 30, 2021

There's a typo in your command: you wrote "g0" (g-zero) in the path instead of "go" (g-o).

@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone Nov 30, 2021
@seankhliao
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the instructions assume you start with a supported version of go, (1.16,1.17)
use go get if you're on an earlier version

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