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Installing Go with command line

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Install Go language with a Bash script

Another alternative to installing Go is to use a simple Bash script. It will download and install Go language under of your own user account.

Note that a system-wide installation might be better for some things (for example, better protected from accidental modifications etc.), but this was a bit simpler to setup.

For this example, we are using:

https://github.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script

Create directory

mkdir -p ~/git/GitHub/canha

Clone Git repository

cd ~/git/GitHub/canha
git clone https://github.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script 
cd golang-tools-install-script/

Install a 64-bit version

bash goinstall.sh --64

Script downloads the version specified in the Bash script (at the moment 1.9.2) and installs it to ~/.go directory.

Check that it was added to your shell config

cat ~/.bashrc

Reload your shell

source ~/.bashrc

Try if it works

go help

That should show a quick help for the go command.

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Installing Go to Ubuntu Linux

Install gvm

Install required packages for gvm

sudo apt-get install curl git mercurial make binutils bison gcc build-essential

Install old Go version first

gvm install go1.4 -B
gvm use go1.4
export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=$GOROOT

Look what is the latest Go version

Now after installing the old version, look for the latest release.

Open URL https://golang.org/dl/ and look what is the latest version number.
Then look if that release is available via gvm:
- gvm listall
Install latest version
- gvm install go1.8.3
Set it as the default version:
- gvm use go1.8.3 --default

Updating to a new version

If you have previous version of Go already installed, you can update to a new release version of Go with these steps:

gvm install go1.8.3
gvm use go1.8.3 --default