Installing using OS package manager
You might use your package manager to install Go or install manually from the official release binaries. Either way should be easy.
Because the go tool is able to download code from remote repositories, it is often useful to have installed clients for the various supported version control systems. At the time of this writing, they are documented as: Bazaar, Git, Mercurial and Subversion.
They are not mandatory requirements, you might go a long way with just having git installed, and installing others later as required. In any case, to install all of them:
dnf install bzr git mercurial subversion # Fedora
yum install bzr git mercurial subversion # RHEL / CentOS
brew install bazaar git mercurial subversion # macOS with Homebrew
Installation using a package manager
dnf install golang # Fedora
yum install golang # RHEL / CentOS
brew install go # macOS with Homebrew
Installation from official binary releases
- Download an archive for the desired version and platform from https://golang.org/dl/.
- Follow the installation instructions. The main steps are outlined below.
For macOS, execute the package installer from the downloads page.
For Linux, download a .tar.gz archive and extract it into /usr/local, creating a Go tree in /usr/local/go. For example:
tar -C /usr/local -xzf go<version>.tar.gz
Finally, add /usr/local/go/bin to the PATH environment variable. You can do this by adding this line to your /etc/profile (for a system-wide installation) or $HOME/.profile (or ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, …):
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
Run in Docker
docker run -it --rm -v $HOME/go:/go:z golang /bin/bash
The official go Docker image has GOPATH=/go so you can just mount in your desired go path there.
*note :z allows the mount to work correctly with SELINUX.
See Docker Hub for more information
https://github.com/RHCloudServices/golang-intro