Manage multiple versins of Go on MacOS with Homebrew

MacOS-Multi-Version-Go-With-Homebrew.md

This process would likely apply to other Homebrew formula also.

First search for your desired package:

brew search go

You should get a list of results that include the below. Not "go" is very unspecific so you may get a lot of results:

==> Formulae
go ✔
go@1.10
go@1.11
go@1.9

Then install the desired version:

brew install go@1.10

Remember that you can have more than one package installed at the same time, but you cannot have them all available at the same time. So if you have the latest/generic go package already installed you need to unlink it first:

brew unlink go

And then you can link a different version:

brew link go@1.10

In some cases you may need to link them with the --force and --overwrite options:

brew link --force --overwrite go@1.10

brew search go is not giving me the list of all versions of go

Hi @dnjmn,
I am using mac os Big Sir I ran brew install golang which installed the latest golang go1.16.5 in /usr/local/bin/go -> ../Cellar/go/1.16.5/bin/go. How do I get brew to install the Formulae or Caske for go version 1.13.4 or go1.13.4 ?

I need to use go1.13.4 on our project

Hi, if you are using m1 mac (arm64) than it is not possible to install golang below version 1.15, if you are using intel mac just type the version: brew install go 1.14 this should do regards, dhananjay

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I think using Go's built in method to manage multiple versions might be less "violent": https://golang.org/doc/manage-install#installing-multiple

Awesome, this is really an elegant solution. Previously to use older version I had to play with alias (alias go="go1.19"), but this is really a clean to way to do it. Thanks!