Installing Go on openSUSE
I have been using Go a lot lately. There are several open source projects that I want to be more involved with, and they all use Go. Since I have been using openSUSE, both Leap and Tumbleweed, I thought I would share how to get Go installed. The nice thing about the openSUSE packages for Go is that they include a script that will configure all the environment variables for you after a reboot. You can read more here on the wiki. Let’s add the Go repository so we can install the packages.
Leap 15.2
$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:go/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/devel:languages:go.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
Tumbleweed
$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Factory/standard/openSUSE:Factory.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
Now we can search to see what is available for Go.
$ sudo zypper search go
| go | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go-doc | Go documentation | package
| go-for-it | A to-do list with built-in productivity timer | package
| go-for-it-lang | Translations for package go-for-it | package
| go-md2man | Tool to converts markdown into man pages | package
| go-modiff | Command line tool for diffing Go module dependen-> | srcpackage
| go-modiff | Command line tool for diffing Go module dependen-> | package
| go-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go-swagger | Swagger implementation in golang | srcpackage
| go-swagger | Swagger implementation in golang | package
| go-swagger-debuginfo| Debug information for package go-swagger | package
| go-toml | Go library for the TOML language | package
| go-tools | Additional toolsgraphy libraries | package
| go1.10 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.10 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.10-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.10-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.11 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.11 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.11-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.11-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.12 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.12 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.12-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.12-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.13 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.13 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.13-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.13-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.14 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.14 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.14-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.14-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.15 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.15 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.15-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.15-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.4 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.4 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.4-debuginfo | Debug information for package go1.4 | package
| go1.4-debugsource | Debug sources for package go1.4 | package
| go1.4-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.4-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.7 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.7-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.7-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.8 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.8-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.8-race | Go runtime race detector | package
| go1.9 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | srcpackage
| go1.9 | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent progra-> | package
| go1.9-doc | Go documentation | package
| go1.9-race | Go runtime race detector | package
There are a lot more packages that are Go related than what I am showing. I know that for my purposes, I need version 1.15, so I will install it.
$ sudo zypper install go1.15
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 3 NEW packages are going to be installed:
go1.15 go1.15-doc go1.15-race
The following recommended package was automatically selected:
go1.15-doc
3 new packages to install.
Once that finishes, let’s verify that we have it installed.
$ go version
go version go1.15.6 linux/amd64
That’s it. There are many other Go-related packages in there like Hugo and even Go packages from GitHub. I believe some packages are available in the standard repos. I just know I wanted some of the other packages offered in the extra repo.
Thanks for reading,
Jamie
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