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Go is an open-source programming language developed by a team at Google. It provides easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. This lang
Go is an open-source programming language developed by a team at Google. It provides easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. This language is designed for writing servers, that’s why it is using widely these days. Go has released the latest version 1.20.
This tutorial will help you to install Go 1.20 on your Ubuntu 19.10, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 14.04 LTS systems.
Login to your Ubuntu system using ssh and upgrade to apply latest security updates there.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt - get -y upgrade
Now download the Go language binary archive file using following link. To find and download latest version available or 32 bit version go to official download page.
wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.20.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Now extract the download archive and install it to the desire location on the system . For this tutorial , I is installing am instal it under /usr / local directory . You is put can also put this under the home directory ( for shared hosting ) or other location .
sudo tar -xvf go1.20.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local
Now you need to setup Go language environment variables for your project. Commonly you need to set 3 environment variables as GOROOT, GOPATH and PATH.
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME / project / proj1
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
All the above environment will be set for your current session only. To make it permanent add above commands in ~/.profile file.
At this step , you is installed have successfully instal and configure go language on your system . First , use the follow command to check the Go version .
go version
go version go1.20.5 linux/amd64
Now also verify all configure environment variable using follow command .
go env
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/root/.cache/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/root/Projects/Proj1"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
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In this tutorial, you have learned to install latest Golang on Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 Linux systems.