Summary#

I have been programming in Go for three years now and I think I’m ready to share a thing or two I know about it. Although I will never tell anyone to listen to my advice solely on my own experience. But, how well you ingest the information provided. I am open to correcting the information provided if it is incorrect. Just need to reach out to me at the Contact page.

I’ve decided to start sharing what I know about coding now. May not be a lot. But, I intend to provide more information on the topic with what I know. From simple tutorials to articles discussing what has helped me overcome different obsticles.

To get to the point of this note. This will work though the different ways Go can be installed on a workstation based on the OS/distro someone plans on being their development environment.

I will have a note available in the future that explains what Go is in the future.

Discussion related to deployment of Go applications will be discussed in a later note.

Windows#

I will be discussing installing Go on Windows operating systems for devleopment environments in differnet versions of Windows.

As they are added. I will add a new tab for this. But, at this time. I mostly work in WSL or my daily driver for Linux. But, if anyone is having issues with their operating system of choice. I am happy to provide assistance.

Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)#

Installing Go on WSL. It is dependent on operating system. Choose whatever operating system (within avaialability) Go is being installed on from the Linux section of this note. If the operating system isn’t available. Hound me using the information provided in the Contact page.

Linux#

I will be discussing the Linux portion of this note in these sections. There are multiple Linux distros that can have their own flavor of package managment. Here I will be providing methods that have worked for me.

Arch Linux#

Go can be installed on Arch Linux using the pacman(1) command. I generally install this using the -S (to synchronize packages) and -y (to refresh the package file database) flags. Normally I work through the prompts that are available by either pressing enter or putting a y to say yes to the installation.

The sudo(1) command may be required.

pacman -Sy go

If certain that Go needs to be installed. The --noconfirm flag can be used to bypass having to confirm during the installation of Go. It will assume we are OK with installing it. (Not recomended depending on scenario – e.g. uncertain of what is being installed)

pacman -Sy --noconfirm go