Install the Go language on Debian/Ubuntu
Download the Go program at the Golang home page.
https://go.dev/dl/On that Web page find the correct Go version for your operating system. For our purposes here we want the Linux version. The current newest version is 1.23.5. So right-click on the file go1.23.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz, copy the link. Then as root or sudo user, log into your VPS server, and paste the URL onto your command line with a wget command in front of it:
user@vps:~$ wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.23.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
If you are having trouble downloading using this method (I did) then here is an alternate download location:
user@vps:~$wget https://www.sec3.net/misc/go1.23.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
After the download is finished do this command:
user@vps:~$ tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.23.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Log out of root and log in as the user that will be using Golang. Add Go's path to the file .bashrc:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
Save the file.
Log out of the current user. Then log in again.
The Go language is now installed.To check that your Go installation is working run the following command:
user@vps:~$ go version
go version go1.23.5 linux/amd64Done!
This will extract all Golang files to your /usr/local/ directory, in a folder called go.
A precompiled Go binary will be placed in /usr/local/go/bin/
