note: always check for the latest versions, the version numbers shown here will fall out of date quickly.
Step 1. Grab yourself a binary release from here: https://golang.org/dl/
You'll want to use one from the Stable versions
, you probably want one which is in bold, for Ubuntu it's xxx-linux-amd64.tar.gz
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz;