How to Install Go on CentOS 8

Install Go on centos 8; Through this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Go or Golang in centOS 8.

How to Install Go on CentOS 8

Follow the following steps below to download and install Go on CentOS 8:

• Step 1 – Download the Go binary
• Step 2 – Verify the tarball checksum
• Step 3 – Extract the tarball
• Step 4 –  Set $PATH environment variable

Step 1 – Download the Go binary

First of all, open your terminal or command line and execute the following command into it to download the go binary libraries into centos 8:

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Step 2 – Verify the tarball checksum

Once the archive is downloaded, verify the tarball checksum by executing the following command on command line or terminal:

sha256sum go1.13.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Step 3 – Extract the tarball

Then execute the following command on command line to extract the tarball to the /usr/local directory:

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xf go1.13.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Step 4 –  Set $PATH environment variable

Finally, set the path environment variable for go or golang into centos 8 system.

So, we can do this by adding the following line to the /etc/profile file (for a system-wide installation) or to the $HOME/.bash_profile file (for a current user installation):

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

Save the file, and load the new PATH environment variable into the current shell session using the source command:

source ~/.bash_profile

Conclusion

Now that we have downloaded and installed Go in centos 8.

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