Install a Go tool binary with go install and make it available on PATH
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Documented steps
Install a specific released version: `go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest` or `@v0.24.0` — with a version suffix this works from any directory and ignores the current module's go.mod.
Binaries land in $GOBIN if set, otherwise $GOPATH/bin (default: $HOME/go/bin). Check with `go env GOPATH GOBIN`.
Add the bin dir to PATH, e.g. `export PATH="$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin"` in your shell profile.
Inside a module you can also install local commands: `go install ./cmd/...` builds and installs every main package under cmd/.
Docs: https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-install
Known gotchas
All arguments to a single `go install` must share the same version suffix — mixing pkg@v1 and pkg2@v2 in one invocation is rejected.
Only main packages produce executables; installing a library package builds/caches it but writes nothing to GOBIN.
Executables from the Go distribution itself install to $GOROOT/bin or $GOTOOLDIR, not $GOBIN — don't expect to override `gofmt` this way.
Installing the same tool at a different version overwrites the previous binary (same filename, same directory) — there is no side-by-side versioning.
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