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How to Install Golang on WSL/WSL2

Mrityunjaya Prajapati on June 13, 2022

One of the best feature that Windows 10 or 11 Pro support is WSL or WSL2, using this you can run any Linux OS like a windows application. If you w...
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Jorgen Ordonez

Thanks this helped. I had some minor differences in steps I took, which I will list below:

  • I use zsh so I edited .zshrc instead
  • Then after I reload the rc file using source ~/.zshrc instead of spawning a new shell.
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Luiz Henrique F Salmonson

Thank you. Update for current version and zsh user commands:
wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.21.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf go1.21.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local
echo "export GOROOT=/usr/local/go" >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export GOPATH=\$HOME/go" >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export PATH=\$GOPATH/bin:\$GOROOT/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

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D.aȠ

The same for me!

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Olaleye Obidiya

Thanks, this works for bashrc also.

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.23.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf go1.23.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local
echo "export GOROOT=/usr/local/go" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export GOPATH=\$HOME/go" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=\$GOPATH/bin:\$GOROOT/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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LouieMartin

You can use nano .bashrc instead of File Explorer.

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Justin

Thanks for this, worked perfectly 👌

You can also use $ code ~/.bashrc instead of explorer.exe .

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Parmar Ujjaval

even simpler use neovim or vi or vim

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Andrew Ross

Perfect, thanks man

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Nurudeen Rabiu Alabi

very helpful, thanks

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Mogueno

Be sure to always go to go.dev/dl/ to check the latest go version when downloading the .tar.gz!

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Nathan Kurz

Hell yeah! Nice and easy, thanks!

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FRicardi

Just used it - worked great. Thanks!

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Chia Yong Kang

workedp amazing

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Stephen Brodigan

What an absolutely perfect solution to install Go, thank you!

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D.aȠ

Thanks! Almost everything works fine!

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Maureen Ononiwu

Thank you so so so much!!

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Praveen Sharma

Created an acc on this site , Just to say you thank you

Thank You , My Friend

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Robert Petz

Thank you - this actually worked for me!

Straight to the point and effective