# Install Golang on CentOS 7

By

Charl Cronje

The user used(Linux user)In this tutorial is root or a user with root power i.e add sudo at the starting of every command.

Follow the below steps to install the Go programming language on Centos 7:

Step 1: This is yet another method to get Golang installed on your CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 system. It involves downloading the official Golang Installers for Linux systems as below.

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/getgo/installer_linux

Step 2: With the installer downloaded, make it executable.

sudo chmod +x ./installer_linux

Step 3: Now run the installer to install the latest Golang version.

./installer_linux 

The installation will proceed as below:

Welcome to the Go installer!
Downloading Go version go1.17.3 to /home/thor/.go
This may take a bit of time...
Downloaded!
Setting up GOPATH
**GOPATH has been set up!**

One more thing! Run `source /home/thor/.bash_profile` to persist the
new environment variables to your current session, or open a
new shell prompt.

You will then be required to source the ~/.bash_profile

source ~/.bash_profile

Finally, verify the installed version of Golang.

go version
# go version go1.17.3 linux/amd64

Step 4: To verify that go is properly installed run this command:

go version
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