Go is printing xgcc version but not go installed version

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On go version : It prints

go version xgcc (Ubuntu 4.9.1-0ubuntu1) 4.9.1 linux/amd64

My installed version is the latest one and i.e 1.4.2

which got installed from the tar version : go1.4.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

GO Environmental variables looks exactly like this:

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/home/user/coding/golang/gocnew/goc/bin"
GOCHAR="6"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/user/coding/golang/gocnew/goc"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/home/user/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/home/user/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
TERM="dumb"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

I expect go version to be printed as 1.4.2, so how that can be achieved?

Yes i myself downloaded and extracted the files from the site : [Golang Downloads](https://golang.org/dl/) — Mithun Shreevatsa, Apr 09 '15 at 08:00
Check with `which go` what go binary is being used when you type `go version` — Jaime Soriano, Apr 09 '15 at 18:39
Yes! `$ which go` gives me `/usr/local/go/bin/go` and `/usr/local/go/bin/go version` gives me `go version go1.11.4 linux/amd64` — , May 16 '19 at 13:59

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 14 '15 at 06:39

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Looks like you have two versions of Go installed. One from ubuntu package manager and one you installed from source tar.

To confirm kindly try to remove gccgo :

sudo apt-get remove gccgo

edited Apr 14 '15 at 06:39

Piotr Olaszewski

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answered Apr 14 '15 at 06:35

Ravisankar Balaji

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '19 at 03:01

I got the same issue and i fixed it by this way: Access to go folder: /usr/local/go (The installation folder of go) Execute these commands:

Added by Go Path

echo 'export GOROOT=/usr/local/go' >> ~/.bashrc

echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> ~/.bashrc

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

And then go to the source folder and check go version: go version go1.12.2 linux/amd64 it will be displayed the same version in go folder and you can work with go commands.

Go is printing xgcc version but not go installed version

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