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x/website: wrong command for installing the go for wsl linux distro #68890

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iamakhildabral opened this issue Aug 15, 2024 · 2 comments
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What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://go.dev/doc/install >> linux

What is your user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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What did you do?

I tried ur command :
rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.23.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

What did you expect to see?

i expect a successful installation

What did you see instead?

that my tar zip file not found later i saw a video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgpLNj-Pnng&pp=ygUKZ28gb24gd3NsXA%3D%3D
where he show we need to use a sudo just in between your installation command before tar :
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.23.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

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sudo is not a universal requirement

@seankhliao seankhliao closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Aug 15, 2024
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