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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.

Go is a language developed at google. The golang programs are generally having the extension '.go'.

So this is how we run a golang program.