Installation

Install in Linux or Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git curl wget
$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go<versions>.gz

You can find the version lists here.

# To install go1.7 use
$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz

 
# Untar the file
$ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/local/go
$ rm go1.5.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Update $GOPATH

$ mkdir $HOME/go

Add following two lines at the end of the ~/.bashrc file

export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH

$ nano ~/.bashrc
  export GOPATH=$HOME/go
  export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH

$ source ~/.bashrc

Now are set to go, test your go version using:

$ go version
go version go<version> linux/amd64