How to install Google GO (GOlang/Go Programming Language) on Ubuntu 9.10?

Here are step by step instructions that you can enter from a terminal window:

export GOROOT=/home/your-name/hg

export GOOS=linux

export GOARCH=386
(or amd64 or arm)

mkdir /home/yourname/bin

chmod 777 /home/yourname/bin

export GOBIN=/home/yourname/bin

export PATH=$PATH:/home/yourname/bin

env|grep '^GO'

sudo apt-get install mercurial

hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT

sudo apt-get install bison gcc libc6-dev ed

./all.bash

That's it, now you have installed GO on your Ubuntu system.