This is more a note to myself and a very short guide (without any comments or explaination) how to install golang on a Raspberry PI. Maybe it’s useful for somebody else, too.

Install Go

• Visit https://golang.org/dl/
• Find download URL of latest stable version for Linux ARM V6 (at the time of this post it was go1.12.7.linux-armv6l.tar.gz)
• Login to Raspberry pi with SSH
• wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.7.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
• sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.12.7.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
• Add the following line to ~/.profile:
  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• source ~/.profile(or just log out and in again)
• go version
go version go1.12.7 linux/arm


Setting Go-Path

• Add the following 2 lines to ~/.profile (Change path if needed):
  
export GOPATH=$HOME/workspace/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin


That’s it.

If you know a better way to install it, just leave a comment.