How to install the current version of Go in Ubuntu Precise

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Running sudo apt-get install golang-stable  I get Go version go1 0 3  Is there any way to install go1 1 1

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Download say  go1 6beta1 linux-amd64 tar gz from https   golang org dl    into  tmp       wget https   storage googleapis com golang go1 6beta1 linux-amd64 tar gz -o  tmp go1 6beta1 linux-amd64 tar gz        un-tar into  usr local bin        sudo tar -zxvf go1 6beta1 linux-amd64 tar gz -C  usr local bin         Set GOROOT  GOPATH   on ubuntu add following to    bashrc       mkdir   go export GOPATH   go export PATH  PATH  GOPATH bin export GOROOT  usr local bin go export PATH  PATH  GOROOT bin         Verify      go version should show be      go version go1 6beta1 linux amd64   go env should show be     GOARCH  amd64    GOBIN      GOEXE      GOHOSTARCH  amd64    GOHOSTOS  linux    GOOS  linux    GOPATH   home vats go    GORACE      GOROOT   usr local bin go    GOTOOLDIR   usr local bin go pkg tool linux amd64    GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT  1    CC  gcc    GOGCCFLAGS  -fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length 0    CXX  g      CGO ENABLED  1

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These days according to the golang github with for Ubuntu  it s possible to install the latest version of Go easily via a snap      Using snaps also works quite well      This will give you the latest version of go   sudo snap install --classic go   Potentially preferable to fussing with outdated and or 3rd party PPAs

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If someone is looking for installing Go 1 8 the follow this   sudo add-apt-repository ppa longsleep golang-backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang-go   And then install go  sudo apt-get install golang-1 8-go

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For the current release of Go   The Go Programming Language Getting Started Download the Go distribution Downloads Click the link above to visit the Go project s downloads page and select the binary distribution that matches your operating system and processor architecture  Official binary distributions are available for the FreeBSD  Linux  macOS  and Windows operating systems and the 32-bit  386  and 64-bit  amd64  x86 processor architectures  If a binary distribution is not available for your combination of operating system and architecture you may want to try installing from source or installing gccgo instead of gc  Installing Go from source

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You can use a script from udhos update-golang   Here is a two-liner as example  run as root    bash  lt  curl -s https   raw githubusercontent com udhos update-golang master update-golang sh  ln -vs  usr local go bin go   usr local bin

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On recent Ubuntu  20 10  sudo apt-get install golang works fine  it will install version 1 14

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I use this instruction to install the latest version of   Remove the existing Go version  sudo apt-get purge golang    Install the latest version of Go  sudo add-apt-repository ppa longsleep golang-backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang-go   Create the  profile file in the home path with this content       profile  executed by the command interpreter for login shells    This file is not read by bash 1   if    bash profile or    bash login   exists    see  usr share doc bash examples startup-files for examples    the files are located in the bash-doc package     the default umask is set in  etc profile  for setting the umask   for ssh logins  install and configure the libpam-umask package   umask 022    if running bash if   -n  quot  BASH VERSION quot     then       include  bashrc if it exists     if   -f  quot  HOME  bashrc quot     then            quot  HOME  bashrc quot      fi fi    set PATH so it includes user s private bin directories PATH  quot  HOME bin  HOME  local bin  PATH quot    Set Go workspace to the environment variable  GOPATH    go   Apply the  profile configuration  source    profile     Test    go version go version go1 11 1 linux amd64   Ref  Go-GitHub-Installation

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I like to use GVM for managing my Go versions in my Ubuntu box   Pretty simple to use  and if you re familiar with RVM  it s a nobrainer   It allows you to have multiple versions of Go installed in your system and switch between whichever version you want at any point in time   Install GVM with   sudo apt-get install bison mercurial bash  lt   lt  curl -LSs  https   raw githubusercontent com moovweb gvm master binscripts gvm-installer       HOME  gvm scripts gvm    and then it s as easy as doing this   gvm install go1 1 1 gvm use go1 1 1 --default   The default flag at the end of the second command will set go1 1 1 to be your default Go version whenever you start a new terminal session

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You can also use the update-golang script   update-golang is a script to easily fetch and install new Golang releases with minimum system intrusion  git clone https   github com udhos update-golang cd update-golang sudo   update-golang sh

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If you have ubuntu-mate  you can install latest go by   umake go I have a script to download and install the last go from official website     Change these varialbe to where ever you feel comfortable  DOWNLOAD DIR   HOME  Downloads GoLang  INSTALL DIR   HOME  App  function install       mkdir -p   DOWNLOAD DIR      cd   DOWNLOAD DIR       echo  Fetching latest Go version         typeset VER  curl -s https   golang org dl    grep -m 1 -o  go   0-9          0-9            if uname -m   grep 64  gt   dev null  then         typeset ARCH amd64     else         typeset ARCH 386     fi     typeset FILE  VER linux- ARCH      if      -e   FILE  tar gz     then          echo  Downloading   FILE                wget https   storage googleapis com golang   FILE  tar gz     fi      echo  Installing   FILE           tar zxfC   FILE  tar gz   INSTALL DIR      echo  Go is installed     install    Setup your GOROOT  GOPATH and PATH   export GOROOT   INSTALL DIR  go export GOPATH  lt your go path gt  export PATH   PATH    GOROOT  bin   GOPATH  bin

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I used following commands from GoLang official repository   it installed GoLang version 1 6 on my Ubuntu 14 04  sudo add-apt-repository ppa ubuntu-lxc lxd-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang   Reference official GoLang Repo https   github com golang go wiki Ubuntu it seems this ppa will always be updated in future

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Best way to install Go on Ubuntu is to download required version from here  Here you could have all stable and releases  along with archived versions    after downloading you selected version you can follow further steps  i will suggest you to download tar gz format for ubuntu machine    first of all fully remove the older version from your local by doing this   sudo rm -rf  usr local go  usr local gocache   this will remove all the local go code base but wait something more we have to do to remove fully from local  i was missing this step and it took so much time until I understood what i am missing so here is the purge stuff to remove from list    sudo apt-get purge golang    or    sudo apt remove golang-go     Now install   extract your downloaded version of go inside  usr local go  by hitting terminal with this      tar -C  usr local -xzf go1 10 8 linux-amd64 tar gz    after doing all above stuff   don t forget or check to GOROOT variable value you can check the value by go env if not set then export PATH  PATH  usr local go Better to test a small go program to make sure  write this inside  home yourusername go test php if you haven t changed set GOPATH value     package main  import  fmt   func main         fmt Println  hello world         run this by go run test go   i hope it works for you

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Here is the most straight forward and simple method I found to install go on Ubuntu 14 04 without any ppa or any other tool   As of now  The version of GO is 1 7  Get the Go 1 7 tar gz using wget  wget https   storage googleapis com golang go1 7 linux-amd64 tar gz  Extract it and copy it to  usr local   sudo tar -C  usr local -xzvf go1 7 linux-amd64 tar gz  You have now successfully installed GO  Now You have to set Environment Variables so you can use the go command from anywhere    To achieve this we need to add a line to  bashrc So   sudo nano    bashrc  and add the following line to the end of file   export PATH   usr local go bin  PATH   Now  All the commands in go bin will work    Check if the install was successful by doing   go version  For offline Documentation you can do   godoc -http  6060  Offline documentation will be available at http   localhost 6060  NOTE    Some people here are suggesting to change the PATH variable   It is not a good choice     Changing that to  usr local go bin is temporary and it ll reset once you close terminal   go command will only work in terminal in which you changed the value of PATH  You ll not be able to use any other command like ls  nano or just about everything because everything else is in  usr bin or in other locations  All those things will stop working and it ll start giving you error     However  this is permanent and does not disturbs anything else

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Updated  previous answer no longer applied   For fetching the latest version  sudo add-apt-repository ppa longsleep golang-backports sudo apt update sudo apt install golang-go  Also see the wiki

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October 2015  Answer because the current accepted answersudo apt-get install golang isn t uptodate and if you don t want to install GVM follow these steps   Step by step installation    Download the latest version here  OS  Linux   Open your terminal and go to your Downloads directory sudo tar -C  usr local -xzf go VERSION  OS- ARCH tar gz Add go to your path export PATH  PATH  usr local go bin go version to check the current version installed Start programming    Possible errors   fixes   to be updated   If you get a go version xgcc  Ubuntu 4 9 1-0ubuntu1  4 9 1 linux amd64 then you did something wrong  so check out this post  Go is printing xgcc version but not go installed version

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Or maybe you could use this script to install Go and LiteIDE   If you are unhappy with the answer provided  please comment instead of blindly down voting  I have used this setup for the last 4 years without any issue

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i installed from source  there is a step-by-step tutorial here  http   golang org doc install source

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