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 Installing Go
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-InfluxDB requires Go 1.5 or greater.
+InfluxDB requires Go 1.5.2 or greater.
 
 At InfluxDB we find gvm, a Go version manager, useful for installing Go. For instructions
 on how to install it see [the gvm page on github](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm).