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Go - Download and Install the Go CLI on Linux

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Download the go TAR archive from https://go.dev/dl/ and upload the TAR archive onto your Linux system.

Create a directory for the go CLI.

mkdir /usr/local/bin/go1.22.5

 

The tar command can be used to extract the go TAR archive.

tar -zxpf /path/to/go1.22.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz --directory /usr/local/bin/go1.22.5/

 

You can now use the full path to the go CLI to verify the go CLI is working as expected.

/usr/local/bin/go1.22.5/go/bin/go version

 

Assuming the go CLI is working as expected, you can remove the TAR archive.

rm go1.22.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz

 

Almost always, you can going to want to create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/go to the full path to the go CLI so that you can just issue the go command on the command line.

ln -s /usr/local/bin/go1.22.5/go/bin/go /usr/bin/go

 

And now just the "go" command can be used.

~]$ go version
go version go1.22.5 linux/amd64

 




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