Installing Golang on Ubuntu Terminal

Installing Go

• Update and upgrade the Ubuntu package by running the following two commands:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get -y upgrade
  

• Get the url address to download stable package of Go by visit https://golang.org/dl/ then copy the link address.
• Download Go package by running the following command. Assume that the url address that is fetched from previous step is https://dl.google.com/go/go1.11.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz so command will be as follow:

  curl -O https://dl.google.com/go/go1.11.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  

• Unpack the package using the following command:

  tar -xvf go1.11.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  

• Move the unpacked Go package to /usr/local

  sudo mv go /usr/local
  

Setting up GOPATH

• Open .profile file as follow:

  sudo nano ~/.profile
  

• Add the following lines at the end of file:

  export GOPATH=$HOME/goprojects
  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin
  

• Refresh the profile by running following command:

  source ~/.profile
  

• Create the workspace folder as follow:

  mkdir $HOME/goprojects
  

Testing Go Installation

• Type the following command to find out the Go version. It should show the version of installed Go.

  go version
  

• Download HelloWorld code by running the following command:

  go get github.com/golang/example/hello
  

• Wait a moment until it download the code completely, then execute the following command:

  $GOPATH/bin/hello