Chapter 1: Installation of Go Lang in Linux

Note: For Windows and Mac also we can visit the official website and follow the instructions.

1. Visit Go Lang official website and download tar file of go lang.
2. If this is first time installation then you can skip this step else you can clear the previous go lang installation from user directory as.

rm -rf /usr/local/go

3. Then untar the download file and install go lang in user directory as.

$ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz

here -C just copies the untar data to /usr/local directory.

4. Setup PATH environment variable by adding the following line to your $HOME/.profile or /etc/profile

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

To apply the changes either relogin or source the .profile file this way

source $HOME/.profile

In the end the PATH should look something like this in .profile file or /etc/environment file.

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin:/usr/local/go/bin"

5. Verify Go installation

$ go version
go version go1.18.3 linux/amd64

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