How to Install Go in Alpine Linux?

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write microservices, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It’s a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. In this article, we are going to see how we can install Go in our Alpine Linux.

System Configuration:

To display the detailed information of our system, we are going to use a tool called neofetch:

apk add neofetch

Run the following command to execute neofetch:

neofetch

Neofetch output

Installing Go on Alpine Linux:

Step 1: Download the Go binary by running the following command:

wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Downloading go

Step 2:  Unzip the binary and move the archive into /usr/local .

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.17.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Step 3: Add the go bin path to the terminal environment.

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

Step 4: To verify the installation, run the following command:

go version

go installed