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Installing Go

Go 1.2+ is recommended - unlike most other languages, the forward compatibility guarantee is ironclad, so go to https://go.dev/dl/ and pick the latest one (1.22.3 at time of writing), "copy link location" on the relevant version (linux x86-64 in this example, which applies to Linux and WSL, for Mac see here - not tested for BSDs or Windows but should work).

cd
mkdir bin 
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Using your favourite editor, open up ~/.bashrc - or just

nano ~/.bashrc

and put the following lines at the end

export GOBIN=$HOME/bin
export GOPATH=$HOME
export GOROOT=$GOPATH/go
export PATH=$HOME/go/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$GOBIN:$PATH

save and close, and ctrl-d to kill the terminal session, and start a new one.

This also creates a proper place where go install will put produced binaries.