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In the latest version of Ubuntu, the go language tools may be already available in the repos. In that case try,

   sudo apt-get install golang

If it is not working, add go tools PPA and install it.


   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/go

   sudo apt-get update 

   sudo apt-get install golang-stable

Then create a go lang program, say helloword.go and run it to test it.

cat helloworld.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello World")
}
Then run it,

 go run helloworld.go 

If everything is okay, it will give the below output and you are good to go.

Hello World



Reference:
http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Ubuntu
http://golang.org/doc/install