Any PPAs for Google's Go Language?

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Do you know of any URLs for PPAs of Google's Go Language?

Does anybody know of binary packages (.deb) of gccgo 4.7 or later for Ubuntu Lucid? — pts, Apr 09 '12 at 17:58

gcharbon · Answer 1 · 2024-02-09T22:19:36.477

2023 answer: If you're using Ubuntu between 16.04 and 22.04 on amd64, arm64, armhf or i386, you can use the recommended ppa:longsleep/golang-backports.

It provides Golang from version 1.8 to 1.21

You can read more info on https://launchpad.net/~longsleep/+archive/ubuntu/golang-backports.

To sum it up:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-go

Note that golang-go installs latest Go as default Go. If you do not want that, install golang-1.19 instead and use the binaries from /usr/lib/go-1.19/bin for example.

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Here's a PPA for Go. It worked for me, just now, and is maintained with golang versions for 10.04-12.04.

https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/go

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-stable

Substitute golang-weekly or golang-tip if you want more up to date snapshots.

References:

EDIT: unfortunately the Gophers archive is now discontinued (see the PPA description and http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go), now replaced by a custom binary that can be used to generate Go deb packages from source.

However, the golang package currently in Trusty is relatively recent (1.2.1 at the time of this writing). If you are still on 12.04, you might want to use this backports PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~bcandrea/+archive/ubuntu/backports

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bcandrea/backports
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install golang

which I maintain trying to keep up with stable updates in official Ubuntu repositories.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered May 16 '11 at 08:37

Alex Rudnick

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I've installed this PPA and I seem to have all the relevant packages installed (stable version). But where are the executables? I'm trying the usual ones - 6g and 6l are not in the path. – egarcia Mar 19 '12 at 19:02
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No support for 14.04... :-( – Ionică Bizău May 02 '14 at 15:09
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...aaaaand it's yet another dead PPA without packages for current versions of Ubuntu. – Aaron C. de Bruyn Oct 06 '15 at 18:24
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Please unmark this answer as the right one, it's no longer relevant. – Jason R. Coombs Jan 09 '19 at 20:14

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 22 '15 at 14:08

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Currently, there is no PPA for the latest upstream version of Go available. To install the current Go version you can use godeb, which automatically installs the latest upstream version as a .deb package:

Prepare the envorinment by creating a directory and setting the GOPATH and PATH variable:

mkdir -p ~/.go/bin
echo "GOPATH DEFAULT=\${HOME}/.go" >> ~/.pam_environment
echo "PATH DEFAULT=\${PATH}:\$GOPATH/bin" >> ~/.pam_environment
# Re-login your user so the variables are applied

Download, unpack and install the latest Go version with godeb:

wget -O /tmp/godeb-amd64.tar.gz https://godeb.s3.amazonaws.com/godeb-amd64.tar.gz
tar xfz /tmp/godeb-amd64.tar.gz -C ~/.go/bin
godeb install

Go is now ready to use. For more information, see godeb --help.

answered Feb 22 '15 at 14:08

zerwas

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2016 here. This is the correct answer. – mniess Jan 31 '16 at 23:27
Yes, just discovered this myself as the correct answer. You can read a blog post about it here. http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go – RayfenWindspear Oct 07 '16 at 15:25
On Ubuntu Xenial, the "prepare environment" instructions don't work for me. The .pam_environment is executed, but ${HOME} apparently is empty, so GOPATH ends up as /.go, which is a no-go. – Jason R. Coombs Jan 09 '19 at 20:23
See my answer below for info on how to install go v1.11 from the gophers archive PPA. – Jonathan Cross Apr 01 '19 at 01:41

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 16:32

I've not been able to find a PPA, but the gccgo developer has posted .deb packages on his sourceforge site.

Individuals have been working on packaging upstream Go in Debian, see the WNPP bug for more info. You might be able to build a deb from the hg repo as folloows:

hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/golang/
cd golang
debuild -us -uc

I'm not terribly familiar with using hg to build debian packages, and keep in mind this is development packaging you're working with.

abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found – Ionică Bizău May 02 '14 at 15:08 — Ionică Bizău, May 02 '14 at 15:08

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 08:19

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I used this one ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable that has the near to latest version

answered Jan 18 '16 at 08:19

lcapra

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Why has this been downvoted? They actually provide a package of golang with version 1.6 beta. It worked well for me! – Atmocreations Jan 21 '16 at 07:25
Corresponding Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-lxc/+archive/ubuntu/lxd-stable – Veger Sep 08 '16 at 08:34
This is what I have been using but they are currently lagging behind. Right now their version is 1.6.2, but 1.6.3 and 1.7 have been released. – RayfenWindspear Oct 07 '16 at 15:17

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 01 '19 at 01:39

Go versions 1.4 through 1.11 for Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial, Bionic, Cosmic and Disco can be installed from here: https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/ubuntu/archive

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-1.11-go

Note: After install, you will need to add /usr/lib/go-1.X/bin (or maybe /usr/lib/go-tip/bin) to your $PATH, or you can just invoke /usr/lib/go-1.X/bin/go directly.

Adi Prasetyo · Answer 7 · 2021-02-16T18:22:50.207

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I got gpg failure gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name

Interestingly it on snap, so snap user can easily type sudo snap install go --classic but remember if you already have go you should apt remove go-lang before install go

in case someone faces 404

edited Feb 16 '21 at 18:22

answered Feb 16 '21 at 17:56

Adi Prasetyo

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 18:02

gccgo has official .deb packages in Debian experimental now.

This should be all you need to compile go code into an executable.

Any PPAs for Google's Go Language?

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