Problem with installing Go on Ubuntu 20.04 server

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I am new to Ubuntu and am trying to install Go onto my server, however I get an error when trying to use Go.

Command 'go' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install golang-go  # version 2:1.13~1ubuntu2, or
sudo apt install gccgo-go   # version 2:1.13~1ubuntu2

The commands I used to install Go are below.

$ wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.15.10.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo tar -xvf go1.15.10.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo mv go /usr/local

Then I appended the following to the bash_aliases file.

$ vi ~/.bash_aliases
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH

What am I doing wrong here?

ubuntu-20.04 go ubuntu
2 Answers

I will give you some suggest.

  1. check your path var
echo $PATH

Since you edit ~/.bash_aliases, I think you maybe not source this file.

please try source ~/.bash_aliases.

or try

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

beside ~/.bash_aliases may not be load by default. see if . ~/.bash_aliases is in your ~/.bashrc file.

  1. Check if bin can run
/usr/local/go/bin/go version

if have error, maybe is the package you download is wrong. checksum the tar package(for example: md5sum xxxx.tar.gz).

  1. check the default path of go
which go

if go bin not in /usr/local/go/bin/go, you should delete the go bin that shown by which go

user_161006470

Using APT, there is an official package you can install using Ubuntu

Open a terminal and run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-go

Depending on your version of Ubuntu, you may have to run:

sudo apt install golang

Hope this helps! Its my first answer!

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