Any PPAs for Google's Go Language?

Solution 1:

2021 answer: If you're using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or 20.04 LTS on amd64, arm64, armhf or i386, you can use the recommended ppa:longsleep/golang-backports. It provides Golang:

• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17

You can read more info on https://launchpad.net/~longsleep/+archive/ubuntu/golang-backports.

To sum it up:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-go

Solution 2:

Here's a PPA for Go. It worked for me, just now, and is maintained with golang versions for 10.04-12.04.

• https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/go

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install golang-stable 
  

Substitute golang-weekly or golang-tip if you want more up to date snapshots.

References:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Go
• What are PPAs and how do I use them?

EDIT: unfortunately the Gophers archive is now discontinued (see the PPA description and http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go), now replaced by a custom binary that can be used to generate Go deb packages from source.

However, the golang package currently in Trusty is relatively recent (1.2.1 at the time of this writing). If you are still on 12.04, you might want to use this backports PPA:

• https://launchpad.net/~bcandrea/+archive/ubuntu/backports

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bcandrea/backports
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install golang
  

which I maintain trying to keep up with stable updates in official Ubuntu repositories.