Installing GO Programming language in Linux

Download Go installer from the below path

https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded archive into /usr/local, creating a Go tree in /usr/local/go with below command

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.18.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Update Go to your environment profile

Open ~/.bashrc with vi, and add the following, and save it.

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go-1.18
export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/projects/go/bin

Reload the bash profile with the following command

source ~/.bashrc

And check if go is installed successfully:

go version