How To Install golang on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang

Remove golang Configurations and Data

To remove golang configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• golang-1.15
• golang-doc

References

• golang website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.