Install Go Lang on Ubuntu

I decided as my computer hobby to start playing with some of the tools in the Project Discovery set. A good portion of these tools seem to be written in the Go language, so let’s also pursue that a little bit. These are my steps to install on my home server.

OK, First let’s install ‘Go’ on our Ubuntu server

sudo apt install golang-go

Now we can check out installation in 2 manners. The first is to ask what version is installed

Run    :: go version
Output :: go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64

The other option is to write a quick ‘Go’ program and then test that it works.

vim hello.go

Then paste this into our editor window. Don’t forget it is Control + Shift + ‘V’

// Hello Word in Go
package main

// Import OS and fmt packages
import (
       "fmt"
)

// Let us start
func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, world!")  // Normal First Program
}

Compile and run Go program:

Your first go program to test the installation

go run hello.go

Or we can build it as a binary:

go build hello.go
./hello
Hello, world!