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 ## Download Grafana
 
-We recommend using Go to download the source code for the Grafana project:
+We recommend using the Git command-line interface to download the source code for the Grafana project:
 
-1. Add `export GOPATH=$HOME/go/` to the bottom of your `$HOME/.bash_profile`.
-1. Open a terminal and run `go get github.com/grafana/grafana` in your terminal. This command downloads, and installs Grafana to your `$GOPATH`.
-1. Open `$GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/grafana` in your favorite code editor.
+1. Open a terminal and run `git clone https://github.com/grafana/grafana.git`. This command downloads Grafana to a new `grafana` directory in your current directory.
+1. Open the `grafana` directory in your favorite code editor.
+
+For alternative ways of cloning the Grafana repository, please refer to [GitHub's cloning a repository](https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/cloning-a-repository) documentation.
+
+**Warning:** Do not use `go get` to download Grafana. Recent versions of Go have added behavior which isn't compatible with the way the Grafana repository is structured.
 
 ## Build Grafana