There’s nothing special about installing Go language on Raspberry Pi platform, apart from the fact that you will get the version of Go compiled for the platform Raspberry Pi is using – which is ARM based.
Install Go using apt-get
Simply install the golang package, expect it to bring quite a few dependencies along:
greys@becky:~ $ sudo apt-get install golang
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libdate-manip-perl libdbi1 libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdist-checkconflicts-perl libemail-date-format-perl
libexporter-tiny-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-copy-recursive-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libhttp-date-perl
libhttp-message-perl libio-html-perl libio-multiplex-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libipc-shareable-perl
liblist-moreutils-perl liblog-dispatch-perl liblog-log4perl-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl libmime-types-perl
libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libnet-cidr-perl libnet-libidn-perl libnet-server-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-snmp-perl
libnet-ssleay-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-validate-perl librrd8 librrds-perl libsocket6-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl
libsub-name-perl libtry-tiny-perl lxkeymap munin-doc perl-openssl-defaults python-cairo python-gtk2 python-xklavier rrdtool
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
golang-1.7 golang-1.7-doc golang-1.7-go golang-1.7-src golang-doc golang-go golang-src
Suggested packages:
bzr mercurial
The following NEW packages will be installed:
golang golang-1.7 golang-1.7-doc golang-1.7-go golang-1.7-src golang-doc golang-go golang-src
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 182 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 144 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Run go to check version
greys@becky:~ $ go version
go version go1.7.4 linux/arm
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Go running on Raspberry Pi
