Install GoLang And Setup GOPATH

Amirhossein Soltani
2 min readJan 8, 2023

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Installation

  1. Download the Go installer from the Go downloads page.
  2. Open the installer package. This will launch the Go installer.
  3. Follow the prompts in the installer to install Go. The installer will ask you for a installation location; by default, Go will be installed in /usr/local/go.
  4. Once the installation is complete, open a terminal window and type the following command to verify that Go was installed correctly:
go version

This should print the version of Go that you installed.

Setup GOPATH

You may also need to set the GOPATH environment variable. This variable specifies the location of your Go workspace, which is where Go will look for your Go source code and packages. To set the GOPATH variable, open your ~/.bash_profile file and add the following line:

export GOPATH=$HOME/go

Replace $HOME/go with the desired location of your Go workspace.

Then, run the following command to apply the changes:

source ~/.bash_profile

You are now ready to use Go on your machine :)

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Amirhossein Soltani

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