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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 • Nov 23 '22

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.

Luiz Henrique F Salmonson • Oct 20 '23

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

D.aȠ • May 6 '23

The same for me!

Olaleye Obidiya • Aug 14 '24

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