How to install Go (GoLang) compiler on Ubuntu

Now i want to write tutorial how to install GoLang compiler on Ubuntu (no matter what: it can be jaunty jackalope, karmic koala or even hardy heron). So lets start!

So at first step you should go into terminal and write

export GOROOT=/home/your_name/hg

This will write into var $GOROOT your path where Go will be installed. But dont make this dir (/hg) - program will make it.

Then you should define other vars:

export GOOS=linux
export GOARCH=386

NOTE! In var $GOARCH you should write your processor architecture! For example: export GOARCH=amd64 or GOARCH=arm

The next step will be creation of /bin folder and addind 777 permission for it. So in your folder (/home/name) create "bin" directory and in the terminal write

chmod 777 /home/your-name/bin
export GOBIN=/home/your-name/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/home/your-name/bin

If you do all the right way - you will see

GOBIN=/home/your-name/bin
GOARCH=386
GOROOT=/home/your-name/hg/
GOOS=linux

when you write

env|grep '^GO'

in the terminal.

Then you shoul fetch Go source files from repo. In this situation helps Mercurial.

sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT

The second line will recive source code.

As you know, Go was written on C language, so you need to install C compiler (gcc) to compile Go. So in terminal write:

sudo apt-get install bison gcc libc6-dev ed

Then the last two steps. Just write in terminal

cd $GOROOT/src
./all.bash

and wait. If you all the same way as i describe - you will see something like that:

--- cd ../test
n known bugs; 0 unexpected bugs

In the next post i help you to write your first programm on Go!