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 ### Manual
 You will need an installation of Go 1.19+ installed on your system.
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+We recommend setting the `GO_TELEMETRY` environment variable to `off`. In the future, the Go CLI will send telemetry to Google, which you might not want.  
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 ```bash
 git clone https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub.git
 cd gothub