如何为所有用户安装golang二进制文件

Question

From all of the Golang tutorials I have read, the way that you install a Go program is by setting the environment variable GOPATH=~/go or something similar, and then you can run go get blah and Go will download the program and put the binary in ~/go/bin. You also have to add ~/go/bin into your $PATH environment variable so that you can run the programs.

How would you go about installing a Golang program into a common location for all users, so that each user on a system did not need to add a PATH environment variable?

The only way I can see of doing it is to make a directory like /usr/local/go, and set that as my GOPATH when I install the program, and then I need to add /usr/local/go/bin into the system-wide $PATH so that all users can run the programs. Is that how it should be done?

Answer 1

There are more environment variables that control how go ... commands work. See: https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Environment_variables. In this case, you can set GOBIN to your desired install location. Ex:

GOBIN=/path/to/common/binaries go get blah

will put the blah binary in /path/to/common/binaries. Note that you'll likely have to run with sudo.