Any PPAs for Google's Go Language?
By Sarah Richards
Do you know of any URLs for PPAs of Google's Go Language?
18 Answers
2021 answer: If you're using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or 20.04 LTS on amd64, arm64, armhf or i386, you can use the recommended ppa:longsleep/golang-backports.
It provides Golang from version 1.8 to 1.18
You can read more info on .
To sum it up:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-goHere's a PPA for Go. It worked for me, just now, and is maintained with golang versions for 10.04-12.04.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang-stable
Substitute golang-weekly or golang-tip if you want more up to date snapshots.
References:
EDIT: unfortunately the Gophers archive is now discontinued (see the PPA description and ), now replaced by a custom binary that can be used to generate Go deb packages from source.
However, the golang package currently in Trusty is relatively recent (1.2.1 at the time of this writing). If you are still on 12.04, you might want to use this backports PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bcandrea/backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang
which I maintain trying to keep up with stable updates in official Ubuntu repositories.
4Currently, there is no PPA for the latest upstream version of Go available. To install the current Go version you can use godeb, which automatically installs the latest upstream version as a .deb package:
Prepare the envorinment by creating a directory and setting the GOPATH and PATH variable:
mkdir -p ~/.go/bin echo "GOPATH DEFAULT=\${HOME}/.go" >> ~/.pam_environment echo "PATH DEFAULT=\${PATH}:\$GOPATH/bin" >> ~/.pam_environment # Re-login your user so the variables are appliedDownload, unpack and install the latest Go version with godeb:
wget -O /tmp/godeb-amd64.tar.gz tar xfz /tmp/godeb-amd64.tar.gz -C ~/.go/bin godeb installGo is now ready to use. For more information, see
godeb --help.
I've not been able to find a PPA, but the gccgo developer has posted .deb packages on his sourceforge site.
Individuals have been working on packaging upstream Go in Debian, see the WNPP bug for more info. You might be able to build a deb from the hg repo as folloows:
hg clone
cd golang
debuild -us -ucI'm not terribly familiar with using hg to build debian packages, and keep in mind this is development packaging you're working with.
I used this one ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable that has the near to latest version
gccgo has official .deb packages in Debian experimental now.
This should be all you need to compile go code into an executable.
More info and links here:
As latest Ubuntu is usually a pull from experimental, then it should certainly be in 11.04 Natty Narwhal.
If you want roll you own .deb for a previous Ubuntu version, then comment from @lfaraone will get you access to debianized selection of google's own source.
If you want to pull the source direct from Google then there is a recent article by @mirwing telling you how to do that.
Go versions 1.4 through 1.11 for Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial, Bionic, Cosmic and Disco can be installed from here:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-1.11-goNote: After install, you will need to add /usr/lib/go-1.X/bin (or maybe /usr/lib/go-tip/bin) to your $PATH, or you can just invoke /usr/lib/go-1.X/bin/go directly.
I got gpg failure gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name
Interestingly it on snap, so snap user can easily typesudo snap install go --classic but remember if you already have go you should apt remove go-lang before install go
in case someone faces 404
