Installing Go on Ubuntu - "The program 'go' is currently not installed"

This should be a simple thing.

I followed the instruction on "http://golang.org/doc/install" to install "Go" on Ubuntu.

  1. Downloaded it
  2. Unzipped it to "usr/local"
  3. Added the path in "/etc/profile" (export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin)

But when I type in "go" it says "The program 'go' is currently not installed".

What should I do?


gedit /etc/profile

Add the below line,

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

Then source the /etc/profile,

source /etc/profile

Logout and login back.


You can use this, for system-wide installation:

echo 'PATH DEFAULT=${PATH}:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

Logout then back in.