We are going to install the last version of Go on a Ubuntu system.
First update your repositories list.
sudo apt-get update
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Go the the downloads page and select the latest version, right now the last version is 1.19.2.
Download, extract the file and move the go folder to the /usr/local/ directory.
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.19.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf go1.19.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local/
rm go1.19.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
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Update the PATH variable to point to our bin folder, we are going to update the ~/.bashrc file so the binary can be used directly typing go in a terminal.
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/devel/goproject
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
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We can test that everything is working using running the following command
$ which go
/usr/local/go/bin/go
$ go version
go version go1.19.2 linux/amd64
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Note: If the go path is /usr/bin/go, it’s because there is another version of go already installed in your system, maybe using apt. We can just uninstall that version with:
sudo apt-get remove golang
sudo apt autoremove
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After removing the old golang version, close the terminal and reopen it.