
Since I've recently started dabbling with Go again, of course I had to install it on my machines that mostly run Linux Mint. One of the usual ways for me to install software through the PPAs was apparently not maintained since a couple of releases ago, but on a ubuntu forum thread I found <a href="https://github.com/niemeyer/godeb">godeb</a>, which is a small binary command line tool that lets you install your desired version of Go!

Since <a href="https://github.com/niemeyer/godeb">godeb</a> will create a .deb package, it will work with most, if not all, Debian distros and derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, SteamOS, Kali Linux and *buntu (as in Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu).

After you've downloaded the package a simple
```bash
./godeb install 1.6
```
is enough to install that version of Go.

You can also list all available versions and decide which one you want / need:
```
% ./godeb list
1.6
1.6
1.5.3
1.5.2
1.5.1
1.5
1.4.3
1.4.2
1.4.1
1.4
1.3.3
1.3.2
1.3.1
1.3
1.2.2
```
Give that guy a star on github if this tool made your life easier too ;)


Since I've recently started dabbling with Go again, of course I had to install
it on my machines th...

Installing Go on Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint with godeb