Any PPAs for Google's Go Language?

Question

Do you know of any URLs for PPAs of Google's Go Language?

Answer 1

Here's a PPA for Go. It worked for me, just now, and is maintained with golang versions for 10.04-12.04.

• https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/go

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install golang-stable 
  

Substitute golang-weekly or golang-tip if you want more up to date snapshots.

References:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Go
• What are PPAs and how do I use them?

Answer 2

I've not been able to find a PPA, but the gccgo developer has posted .deb packages on his sourceforge site.

Individuals have been working on packaging upstream Go in Debian, see the WNPP bug for more info. You might be able to build a deb from the hg repo as folloows:

hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/golang/
cd golang
debuild -us -uc

I'm not terribly familiar with using hg to build debian packages, and keep in mind this is development packaging you're working with.

Answer 3

gccgo has official .deb packages in Debian experimental now.

This should be all you need to compile go code into an executable.

More info and links here:

• Go (golang) intro incl. availability of packages in main distributions

As latest Ubuntu is usually a pull from experimental, then it should certainly be in 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

If you want roll you own .deb for a previous Ubuntu version, then comment from @lfaraone will get you access to debianized selection of google's own source.

If you want to pull the source direct from Google then there is a recent article by @mirwing telling you how to do that.