install_go.md

Golang Install

You can refer to this article about how to install Golang on Ubuntu AMI and Amazon AMI.

Also, in current release, we recommend to use Golang 1.12 and Ubuntu AMI on AWS.

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

Download the Go language binary archive.

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf go1.12.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local

Setup Go environment, including GOROOT and GOPATH. Add enviornment variables to the ~/.profile.

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
mkdir $HOME/project
export GOPATH=$HOME/project
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH

Verify installation

~$ go version
~$ go version go1.12 linux/amd64

~$ go env
...
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/ubuntu/project"
GOPROXY=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
...

If you could see above information, you are all set with Golang installation!