The first step, you must be sure that the Golang bin folder (which is the folder used to store your downloaded go third party packages) is in your PATH environment variable, if not you can simply add the following line to your .profile file or .bashrc file in the home folder.
<pre><code class="lang-bash">export PATH=$PATH:&lt;your GOPATH&gt;/bin
</code></pre>
if you don't know your GOPATH, you can find it by running
<pre><code class="lang-bash">go env | grep GOPATH
</code></pre>
<h1 id="heading-download-the-version-installer-using-the-go-cli">Download the version installer using the go cli</h1>
<pre><code class="lang-bash">go get golang.org/dl/go1.17rc2 ## or the version you want
</code></pre>
<h1 id="heading-download-the-new-version">Download the new version</h1>
<pre><code class="lang-bash">go1.17rc2 download
</code></pre>
Then you can access the new version executable using the go1.17rc2 command. 
or if you want to access it using the go command and remove the old go version you can run the following command
<pre><code class="lang-bash">sudo rm -rvf /usr/local/go/bin/go &amp;&amp; sudo mv &lt;your GOPATH&gt;/bin/go1.17rc2 /usr/local/go/bin/go
</code></pre>

The first step, you must be sure that the Golang bin folder *(which is the folder used to store your downloaded go third party packages)* is in your PATH environment variable, if not you can simply add the following line to your **.profile** file or **.bashrc** file in the home folder.

```bash
export PATH=$PATH:<your GOPATH>/bin
``` 
if you don't know your GOPATH, you can find it by running
```bash 
go env | grep GOPATH
``` 
# Download the version installer using the go cli

```bash
go get golang.org/dl/go1.17rc2 ## or the version you want
``` 
# Download the new version

```bash
go1.17rc2 download
``` 
Then you can access the new version executable using the **go1.17rc2** command. 

or if you want to access it using the **go** command and remove the old go version you can run the following command

```bash
sudo rm -rvf /usr/local/go/bin/go && sudo mv <your GOPATH>/bin/go1.17rc2 /usr/local/go/bin/go
```

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