Install Golang package on Ubuntu Linux

Official Golang documentation contains just tar.gz package to be downloaded and installed on Ubuntu Linux, but this is not quite comfortable way because Golang won’t be automatically updated after new release. Fortunatelly, there is trustable PPA that can be used.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-go