If you need to install Golang on WSL under Windows 10 or higher, you can follow these few steps.
First remove any old versions lying around
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go* && sudo rm -rf /usr/local/goCode language: Bash (bash)Determine the latest Go version
Go to https://golang.org/dl/ and find out what the latest version is. At the time of writing this, Go is on version 1.16.
Install Go
Make sure to replace 1.16 below with the updated version as required.
VERSION=1.16
OS=linux
ARCH=amd64
cd $HOME
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
tar -xvf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
mv go go-$VERSION
sudo mv go-$VERSION /usr/localCode language: Bash (bash)Add Go to your environment profile
Open ~/.bashrc and add the following. Remember to update the 1.16 to the version you installed.
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go-1.16
export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/projects/go/binCode language: Bash (bash)You will now be able to run Go by typing go in the WSL terminal.
Hi, silly question here.
How do I open this
~/.bashrc?There aren’t many guides on the internet to go on.
I’ve opened it using cat .bashrc, but it’s giving me an interface that i find quite confusing, in that it doesn’t offer an obvious place to input the lines of code you include in the second grey box.
Thanks
You could use
vi ~/.bashrcif you are comfortable with Vim, otherwisenano ~/.bashrcwill use the Nano editor.Thanks for your help. I’ve figured the bashrc file out successfully.
However, when I run go version I get 1.13.8.
This is the fourth or so time that I’ve installed go, each time it installs this version.
Do you know why this could be?
Thanks
Thanks for the help. I’ve sorted it now
Awesome post, It helped alot. Thank you.