How to uninstall Golang

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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 output   usr local go bin go   I think I had two installations of go as my GOPATH was pointing to another folder named gocode  I ve now removed that folder  and the usr local go bin go folder   I ve also removed my GOPATH  However  I can still run go    How do I uninstall golang

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I just have to answer here after reading such super-basic advice in the other answers.

For MacOS the default paths are:

/user/bracicot/go (working dir)
/usr/local/go (install dir)

When uninstalling remove both directories.
If you've installed manually obviously these directories may be in other places.

One script I came across installed to /usr/local/.go/ a hidden folder because of permissioning... this could trip you up.

In terminal check:

echo $GOPATH
echo $GOROOT
#and
go version

For me after deleting all go folders I was still getting a go version.

Digging through my system path echo $PATH

/Users/bracicot/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:

revealed some places to check for still-existing go files such as /usr/local/bin

Another user mentioned: /etc/paths.d/go

You may also want to remove GOPATH and GOROOT environment variables.
Check .zshsrc and or .bash_profile.
Or you can unset GOPATH and unset GOROOT

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On a Mac-OS system   If you have used an installer  you can uninstall golang by using the same installer  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

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sudo apt-get remove golang-go sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove golang-go   This is perfect for Ubuntu 18 18

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For Windows 10    Go to Apps in the Settings App    Look for Go Programming Language   in the list and uninstall it    Remove C  Go bin from your PATH environment variable  only if you don t plan on installing another version of golang

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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

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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

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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

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In MacOS  you can just do it with brew  brew uninstall go brew install go brew upgrade go

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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

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Go to the directory cd  usr local   Remove it with super user privileges sudo rm -rf go

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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

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

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On a Mac-OS Catalina   need to add sudo before rm -rf  usr local go sudo rm -rf  usr local go otherwise  we will run into permission denial  sudo vim    profile or sudo    bash profile remove export PATH  PATH  GOPATH BIN or anything related to  go lang If you use Zsh shell  then you need to remove the above line to    zshrc file     Hope it helps you

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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

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