ubuntu install golang 1.5.1 - ppa or?

[Jason E. Aten]

I'd like guidance on how to setup a Ubuntu machine that provides go1.5.1.  e.g. when setting up a build-bot. 

Is there a PPA for ubuntu 14 (and later) that has an up to date golang 1.5.1 binary install available?  

I tried "add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa && apt-get update"  but that gave me the already-out-of-date go1.5, not 1.5.1.

root@ub14:/usr/local/bin# apt-cache policy golang

golang:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 2:1.5-1~eugenesan~trusty1

  Version table:

     2:1.5-1~eugenesan~trusty1 0

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

     2:1.2.1-2ubuntu1 0

        500 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

root@ub14:/usr/local/bin#

# go version

go version go1.5 linux/amd64

[Shawn Milochik]

No, just download it from here:

https://golang.org/dl/

Then (from here: https://golang.org/doc/install) just;

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz

This way you get the current version.

[Tamás Gulácsi]

Or use godeb from github.com/niemeyer/godeb

[Alexander Frimmel]

Some time ago I put that into a script for ubuntu/opensuse desktops.

GOLANG_VERSION=1.5.1
GOLANG_SRC=https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go$GOLANG_VERSION.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd
wget -c $GOLANG_SRC
tar -xvf go$GOLANG_VERSION.linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv go go$GOLANG_VERSION
mkdir -p $HOME/projects/go/{bin,pkg,src}
ln -s go$GOLANG_VERSION go
echo export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" >> ~/.profile
echo export GOROOT=$HOME/go/ >> ~/.profile
echo export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/go >> ~/.profile
echo export GOBIN=$HOME/projects/go/bin >> ~/.profile

Thats all you need todo.