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Expand Up @@ -37,41 +37,20 @@ easy to fork and contribute any changes back upstream.
may observe strange behaviour, such as `goenv` getting into an infinite loop.
See pyenv's issue [#264](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/264) for details.

4. **If you want `goenv` to manage `GOPATH` and `GOROOT` (recommended)**,
add `GOPATH` and `GOROOT` to your shell **after `eval "$(goenv init -)"`**.

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

**Zsh note**: Modify your `~/.zshenv` or `~/.zshrc` file instead of `~/.bash_profile`.

**Ubuntu note**: Modify your `~/.bashrc` file instead of `~/.bash_profile`.

**General warning**: There are some systems where the `BASH_ENV` variable is configured
to point to `.bashrc`. On such systems you should almost certainly put the abovementioned line
`eval "$(goenv init -)` into `.bash_profile`, and **not** into `.bashrc`. Otherwise you
may observe strange behaviour, such as `goenv` getting into an infinite loop.
See pyenv's issue [#264](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/264) for details.

**Security warning**: You likely want to keep $GOPATH/bin at the end
of your $PATH as shown above, rather than at the beginning. See
[#99](https://github.com/go-nv/goenv/issues/99) for details and
discussion.


5. **Restart your shell so the path changes take effect.**
4. **Restart your shell so the path changes take effect.**
You can now begin using goenv.

exec $SHELL

6. **Install Go versions into `$GOENV_ROOT/versions`.**
5. **Install Go versions into `$GOENV_ROOT/versions`.**
For example, to download and install Go 1.12.0, run:

goenv install 1.12.0

**NOTE:** It downloads and places the prebuilt Go binaries provided by Google.

7. **Set goenv global version.**
6. **Set goenv global version.**
For example, to set the version to Go 1.12.0, run:

goenv global 1.12.0
Expand All @@ -82,8 +61,6 @@ An example `.zshrc` that is properly configured may look like
export GOENV_ROOT="$HOME/.goenv"
export PATH="$GOENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(goenv init -)"
export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"
```

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