How To Install golang on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang on Debian 9.
What is golang
golang is:
The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, 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.
This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees that (most of) a full Go development environment is installed.
There are three methods to install golang on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install golang Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install golang using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install golang
Install golang Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install golang using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install golang
Install golang Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install golang using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install golang
How To Uninstall golang on Debian 9
To uninstall only the golang package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove golang
Uninstall golang And Its Dependencies
To uninstall golang and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang
Remove golang Configurations and Data
To remove golang configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge golang
Remove golang configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove golang configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang
Dependencies
golang have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.