How to Install Go on CentOS 7

How to Install Go on CentOS 7

Golang Known as "GO" is a opensource Programming language created by Google. Many popular applications, including Kubernetes and Docker are written in GO. 

Download the Tarball:

Check the official GO page to Download latest version. Current version is 1.14. You can use wget to download the tarball.

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

[root@elasticsearchserver ~]# wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
--2020-05-22 07:00:50--  https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 172.217.26.238, 2404:6800:4009:80a::200e

Extract the tarball:

Use the tar command to extract the tarball to the "/usr/local" directory:

[root@elasticsearchserver ~]# tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Set Go Path Variable:

Now we need to path for Go executable binaries. We can do this by appending 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):

~/.bash_profile
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

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

source ~/.bash_profile

Test GO is installed properly:

[root@elasticsearchserver ~]# go version
go version go1.14.3 linux/amd64
[root@elasticsearchserver ~]#