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> I logged into my trusty CentOS 7 box and installed golang with "yum install go" Ah well there's your problem! I'm always nervous about installing language t
by twic 6y ago
> I logged into my trusty CentOS 7 box and installed golang with "yum install go"
Ah well there's your problem!
I'm always nervous about installing language toolchains from the standard repositories on CentOS, because they are often very out of date, or intertwined with the rest of the base system in awkward ways (this is more of a gcc concern perhaps). I have no idea what the state of Go on CentOS is, so this could be baseless nervousness in this case.
If there is a software collection for a toolchain, that may be a better bet than whatever is in the main repo. There is one for Go:
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/go-toolset-7/ https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/go-toolset...
I can't work out what's in it, so i have no idea if it would have made life any easier around your networking or Git issues. I can't even tell what version of Go is in it. The fact that there isn't a Go toolset for CentOS 8 hints that it might be quite out of date.
- geocrasher 6y agoIndeed this is definitely the wrong flavor of Linux for anything cutting edge. Which happens to be why I love it so much ;)
- mastre_ 6y agoWhat are your plans post-2024?
- geocrasher 6y agoI'm keeping an eye on https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ to see how it pans out. It's got AWS as a sponsor and according to their site "Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project." That bodes well. We'll see how it goes.
- mastre_ 6y agoI'm in the same boat but since I'm thankfully not married to RH-like systems I'm also considering things like Debian.