Install go language by using gvm

about gvm.

https://github.com/moovweb/gvm

You can install specific Go version and switch go version from one to another with gvm.

install required packages to build gvm

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release ;uname –ri DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10" 3.11.0-19-generic x86_64 # apt-get install curl git mercurial make binutils bison gcc build-essential

install gvm

# bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/moovweb/gvm/master/binscripts/gvm-installer) # source /root/.gvm/scripts/gvm # which gvm /root/.gvm/bin/gvm

install go 1.2

# gvm install go1.2 Downloading Go source... Installing go1.2... * Compiling...

# gvm list gvm gos (installed)   go1.2 # gvm use go1.2 --default Now using version go1.2

# go version go version go1.2 linux/amd64 # which go /root/.gvm/gos/go1.2/bin/go

# cat hello_world.go package main import "fmt" func main() {    fmt.Println("hello world") } # go run hello_world.go hello world # go build hello_world.go # ./hello_world hello world

Fedora 20 : install Go 1.2 lang

Reference

http://golang.org/

# cat /etc/fedora-release ;uname -ri Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.0-1.vanilla.mainline.knurd.1.fc20.x86_64 x86_64

download go lang from https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list

untar file and store these file under /usr/local/go directory

# tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

# ls /usr/local/go AUTHORS       LICENSE  README   api  blog  favicon.ico  lib   pkg         src CONTRIBUTORS  PATENTS  VERSION  bin  doc   include      misc  robots.txt  test

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

# which go /usr/local/go/bin/go # go version go version go1.2 linux/amd64

make a go file

# cat hello.go package main import "fmt" func main() {    fmt.Print("hello\n") }

run

# go run hello.go hello