Installing GoLang - Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS \n \l

goinst.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Example usage:
#
# $ VERSION=1.3 sudo ./goinst.sh

if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

test "$VERSION" || VERSION=1.3

set -ex
cd /tmp
wget http://golang.org/dl/go$VERSION.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -C /usr/local -xzf go$VERSION.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:\$PATH' > /etc/profile.d/golang.sh

Another good resource as well: http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go

There are many ways to configure the Go development environment on your computer, you can try this blog too - http://railskey.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/install-gogolang-on-ubuntu/

@christianchristensen! Thank you.

Great stuff, really useful. This line bit me in the arse though:

echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:\$PATH' > /etc/profile.d/golang.sh

You want to use either single quotes, or escape the dollar, not both. As it stands, it wrote literally this:

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

to the profile, which means that the $PATH was obliterated.

i recently started a golang environment installer for Ubuntu
https://github.com/geosoft1/tools/
last version is here
https://github.com/geosoft1/tools/releases/latest