x/website: Incorrect step to modify PATH environment variable

[rootulp]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://go.dev/doc/install

What is your user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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What did you do?

I copied this command and ran it on a Scaleway instance

What did you expect to see?

I expected all my Go binaries to be accessible via my PATH

What did you see instead?

Instead the Go binaries I installed were not accessible via my PATH. The go binaries that I installed were saved to /root/go/bin so I had to modify my path via:

export PATH=$PATH:/root/go/bin

to access those binaries. Can this step be modified to account for cases where the Go bin directory is not at /usr/local/go/bin

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues and Documentation

• x/website: documentation no longer suggests to add $GOPATH/bin to the user's PATH #54510 (closed)
• x/website: The Go installation docs should mention the option to add $GOBIN to $PATH #66043 (closed)
• Go installer and/or https://go.dev/doc/install instructions fail to add `$HOME/go/bin` to PATH #64977 (closed)
• x/website: #45967 (closed)
• doc: installation instruction do not tell people to add $HOME/go/bin to their $PATH #19613 (closed)
• doc/install: mention how to update environment variables before testing the installation #24756 (closed)
• doc: Install from source doc at golang.org/doc inconsistent with install output #21534 (closed)
• cmd/go: go install should warn when installing outside PATH #35912
• x/build/cmd/release: macOS installer doesn't add /usr/local/go/bin to PATH when installing Go 1.14 #44723 (closed)
• installed go for first time $GOHOME not defined, go not in path #34132 (closed)

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[zigo101]

The Go install paths might differ because of different Linux distributions and user configurations. The doc just shows an example.

[edit]: Ah, you use Mac, I'm not familiar with it.

[seankhliao]

The installation is only about the go toolchain itself, any binaries you install may be in a different location, see #42823