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title: "Golang installation"
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# Golang installation

Both the Golang development environment and the applications compiled in it are very self-contained and do not require anything from the system other than a reasonably modern glibc library.

To install Golang, download the Go package for the Linux/amd64 platform from <https://go.dev/dl/>, unpack it in the home directory and add ~/go/bin to the $PATH environment variable:

```
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -C ~ -xzf go1.18.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
export PATH=~/go/bin:$PATH
go version
```