Installation

  1. Start by moving into a writable directory:

    $ cd /tmp

  2. Use the curl command and the link from Go to download the tarball:

    $ curl -LO https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz

  3. Confirm our download is valid. Run this command and make sure the output equals 66d83bfb5a9ede000e33c6579a91a29e6b101829ad41fffb5c5bb6c900e109d9:

    $ sha256sum go1.12*.tar.gz

  4. Install go.

    $ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvzf go1.12.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz

  5. Setup our go folders.

    $ mkdir -p ~/go/{bin,pkg,src}

  6. Enable Go in your paths.

    $ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/path.sh

  7. Append the following to the file.

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

  8. Open this file.

    $ sudo vi ~/.bash_profile

  9. Append the following:

    export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOBIN="$HOME/go/bin"
export GOPATH="$HOME/go"

  10. Apply your changes.

    $ source /etc/profile && source ~/.bash_profile

Usage

  1. Create our new file.

    $ vi ~/go/src/hello.go

  2. Set the following content:

    ```go package main

    import "fmt"

    func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, World!\n") } ```

  3. Run our installation.

    $ go install $GOPATH/src/hello.go

  4. Run.

    $ $GOBIN/hello

Notes