Installing go Lang and Adding it to PATH in Linux

Step 1 : Download the executable

1. get the latest version or your preferred version from the website: https://go.dev/dl/

e.g https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

2. use wget to download it on your server:

wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

3. Upon download completion, extract the downloaded zip

sudo tar -zxvf go1.17.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

 

Step 2 : Setup the Go

 

1. in this step you will need to configure the ${GOPATH} environment variable  for GO

 

echo "export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:${PATH}" | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/go.sh

source /etc/profile.d/go.sh

echo "export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:${PATH}" | sudo tee -a $HOME/.profile source

source $HOME/.profile

2. To verify the setting above have applied successfully, run below command in terminal:

echo $PATH