bash: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/go: Bad address

Question

I did an brew upgrade and afterwards keep getting an bad address error. Tried to uninstall/reinstall everything, but cant figure out what is the problem.

bash: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/go: Bad address

Im new to terminal and linux, so all advice is welcome.

I tried brew doctor. It says "No developer tools installed." and after i 'brew install gcc' it says gcc is already installed and up-to-date.

Please consider not using this contraption on Linux. Please do `apt install golang-go` and be done with it. Once you're comfortable with Go, you'll be able to use already installed Go to build yourself a newer version of Go, if badly needed. — kostix, Nov 29 '22 at 12:56
If, for some reason, you're not comfortable with the version of Go packaged in your OS, consider [downloading an official `.tar.gz` package](https://go.dev/dl/) and unwrapping it. Still, if you're about just starting with the language, I'd recommend to start small and install what's packaged in your OS. Bleeding-edge versions of the language are usually required by those who uses the language on their $dayjob, and, once, in such situation, you usually build Go from the sourc ecode, not mess with non-Linux solutions. — kostix, Nov 29 '22 at 12:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '22 at 13:24

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Use the official Go installation:

Go: Download and install

For full support, avoid OS package managers, Homebrew, and so forth.

First, remove any previous installations by other methods, for example, Homebrew.

answered Nov 29 '22 at 13:24

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Without defining what "full support" means, your answer is dubious. – kostix Nov 29 '22 at 17:16
Feeling something is obvious might be merely a manifestation of the lack of knowledge. Or may be not. – kostix Nov 29 '22 at 20:54
there is a reason for the existence of package managers. – hzh Dec 07 '22 at 02:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '23 at 17:27

Little late, but this post was a suggestion for me when I ran into a similar issue with Go and Brew.

When Brew updates the version of Go (1.19.3 -> 1.19.5 in my case) that it is providing, for some reason it does not correctly update the GOROOT environment varaible. Correcting the value of the variable fixed the issue for me.

export GOROOT=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go/<go_version>/libexec

# example
export GOROOT=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go/1.19.5/libexec

bash: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/go: Bad address

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