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Daniel Oliveira commented on BEAM-13037:
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Version support of Go on the Ubuntu version used in the VMs ends at 1.13, so I
can't update to 1.16 via Ubuntu's package manager. Instead, I had to uninstall
the currently installed Golang and reinstall from a different source.
I decided to go with installing [Go via Snap|https://snapcraft.io/go] as it's a
self-contained environment, Snap is already installed and configured on our
Jenkins images, and the installation and any future updates are easy to perform.
I strongly considered performing a manual installation of Go as described here
[https://golang.org/doc/install]. This is the recommended approach to
installing Go and what I would prefer, but it requires adding to the system's
PATH and/or making liberal use of symlinks because it installs Go binaries to a
different location than the default package manager option. Ultimately I
decided against it due to the amount of time it would take to deal with these
small headaches. However, if Snap gives us any problems, a manual installation
is the best alternative.
> Update Golang version on Jenkins worker images.
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> Key: BEAM-13037
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-13037
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: sdk-go, testing
> Reporter: Daniel Oliveira
> Assignee: Daniel Oliveira
> Priority: P2
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> Update the version of the `go` command on our Jenkins VMs from 1.12.X to
> 1.16.X, to match as closely as possible the current version specified for Go
> in our BeamModulePlugin (1.16.5).
> Follows the instructions on Confluence here:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Jenkins+Tips#JenkinsTips-HowtoinstallandupgradesoftwareonJenkinsworkers
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