Running Your First Go Code Today

Today we will be setting the environment for needed to run golang code on your machine

Installation

1. Download go runtime from the main site

2. Remove the old go runtime(If you have go already installed)

$ rm -rf /usr/local/go

3. Unzip the download file into /usr/local/ with the following command

$ tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.19.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Setup GOPATH

1. Add GOPATH to the PATHS by editing the shell source file

export PATH=PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Note: The shell source file is like .bashrc, .zshrc, It depends on the current running shell on your machine

Afterward to update the changes run

$ source SHELL_FILE

Now everything is set up the following command should work.

$ go version
go version go1.19.2 linux/amd64

That’s all for this article, Wish it was helpful.

If you have any questions or got stuck with some problems leave in the comments below or message me.