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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.

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  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:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Go


• What are PPAs and how do I use them?

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:

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  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.

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:

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   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
   
   

   
   


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   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.

   
   

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.

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

gccgo has official .deb packages in Debian experimental now.

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

More info and links here:

• Go (golang) intro incl. availability of packages in main distributions

As latest Ubuntu is usually a pull from experimental, then it should certainly be in 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

If you want roll you own .deb for a previous Ubuntu version, then comment from @lfaraone will get you access to debianized selection of google's own source.

If you want to pull the source direct from Google then there is a recent article by @mirwing telling you how to do that.

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.