How to install the Go programming language on your server or VPS?

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Assuming you’ve logged in as root in Debian 5.0, to install the Go programming language by Google,

  1. Add these environmental variables for Go in .bash_profile: 
    export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export GOARCH=386  # for 32 bit architectures. Use GOARCH=amd64 for 64 bit architectures
export GOOS=linux
export GOBIN=$HOME/bin
PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN
  2. Install the Mercurial ‘hg’ command: 
    aptitude install mercurial
  3. Fetch the sources of Go and put them at $GOROOT: 
    hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT
  4. Fetch compilers and related utilities: 
    aptitude install bison gcc libc6-dev ed make
  5. Create the directory $HOME/bin by: 
    mkdir $HOME/bin

    and compile Go:

    cd $GOROOT/src
make all

Done. You can now go about writing your first hello world program. If you haven’t got a server yet, I recommend Linode VPS and Rackspace Cloud.

2 thoughts on “How to install the Go programming language on your server or VPS?”

  1. amit

    What will i do for programming in GO language…
    what compiler/interpreter i will use ?
    and from where i’ll get it????
    and how can see the output ??????

    1. Yang Yang

      Well, I doubt it’d be as easy to use as with PHP because it’s meant to replace system programming languages such as C and C++. It sure can produce websites and web applications. But you’d definitely have to wait until some library comes out that makes the process easier for hobby programmers.

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