Hello everyone,
I want to upgrade my go to the latest version. But before installing the new version I must delete the existing one. My OS is Ubuntu 18.04. So I run rm -rf /usr/local/go but the answer I get is: rm: cannot remove 'go': Permission denied.
I have changed the directory permissions with sudo chmod -R 777 go, but the result is the same.
What do you recommend?
Thanks
Remove using sudo.
But only if you are really sure that the folder is not “owned” by a package you installed.
How can /usr/local/go/ folder be owned by a installed package?
If you did apt-get install foo and it therefore installed a package that contained that folder.
Not owned in the filesystem sense of it, but “owned” in the context of your package manager.
As far as I can remember, I installed go by downloading the archive and extracting it into /usr/local/ folder.
Then it should be safe to remove it, without confusing your package managers database.
As far as I remember thats even the proposed location of the installation guide on golang.org. I’m not a huge fan of that practice.
Thanks for help.
What would you recommend?
Using properly packaged software or install in the users home.
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