Ubuntu

Install package golang

The golang Debian package may have already made its way into your Ubuntu distribution. Try this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install golang

Note there is golang in Ubuntu but it is not up to date. An up-to-date version may be found at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-lxc/+archive/ubuntu/lxd-stable

That is all you need to get go working on your system. (You can use go env GOROOT to be sure where the Go files are, if you're curious.) Don't forget to create your GOPATH.

If that didn't work

See http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-go