$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install golang-go
Packages provided by Ubuntu are often outdated. A new version of Go is released every 6 months but Ubuntu distribution moves at a slower pace.
Newer versions are often available via ppa:gophers/archive
package repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/archive
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install golang-1.11-go
If those are still not recent enough, you can install binary parckages.
These instructions work on most Linux distributions:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git curl wget
$ wget <https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go><versions>.gz
You can find the version list here.
# To install go1.12.4 use
$ wget <https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.12.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz>
# Untar the file
$ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.12.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/local/go
$ rm go1.12.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
After installing the compiler you need to configure [GOPATH](<https://www.notion.so/kjkpublic/GOPATH-GOROOT-GOBIN-d6da4b8481f94757bae43be1fdfa9e73>)
environment variable.
Since Go 1.8, the GOPATH
environment variable has the default value of $HOME/go
, so you can skip setting it.
Create the go directory with mkdir $HOME/go
.
Add the following two lines at the end of your ~/.bashrc
file
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
$ source ~/.bashrc
Test the setup by running go version
.