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PowerPC version of Go


I just got access to a powerful Minski IBM machine (Linux) and intend on running some go scripts on it. I have gone through a lot of the versions of golang and tried installing and using them on the machine but none of them seem to work. Is there some special version of GO that I need that is specially designed to work on this powerful computer.

I have now tried installing about 4 or 5 different versions but still keep getting:

The program 'go' is currently not installed. To run 'go' please ask your administrator to install the package 'golang-go'

I was told that there is no need for an administrator to do a system wide install and to just install golang on my machine.

I have been using this step-by-step to install GO on this machine: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-go-1-6-on-ubuntu-14-04

I do not have root access on this machine, just FYI

EDIT: Problem solved

Had to use:

curl -O storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.3.linux-ppc64le.tar.gz

Solution

  • Go Downloads

    PowerPC architecture: ppc64le (64-bit PowerPC little-endian). For example, for Go 1.8.3,

    go1.8.3.linux-ppc64le.tar.gz: https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.3.linux-ppc64le.tar.gz