[Go] Procedure for installing Go on WSL2

Install Go on WSL2

I used Go installed on Windows so far, but I want to develop with WSL2 anyway, so I will install Go on WSL2

Execution environment

OS is ** Windows 10 Pro 64bit ** (version 2004 OS build 19041.572) ** WSL2 ** and OS ** Ubuntu-20.04 **

1. Download the installer

First, open Download and install --The Go Programming Language, select "Linux", and download the installer for Linux.

Move the installer downloaded at this time (go1.15.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz in the example) to a place that is easy for you to understand.

2. Launch WSL

Then open a command prompt or Windows terminal and run the wsl command to launch WSL

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.572]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\sola>wsl
root@sola-pc:/mnt/c/Users/sola#

3. Execute the command described on the official website

I don't think there is, but ** If Go is installed in advance, please uninstall it **

First, expand to / usr / local with the following command

• Move to the location where the installer you downloaded earlier (go1.15.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz in the example) is placed, and then execute it.

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.15.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

4. After moving to the root, launch Explorer

After finishing, move to the route and launch Explorer there

root@sola-pc:/mnt/c/Users/sola# cd ~
root@sola-pc:~# explorer.exe .
root@sola-pc:~#

ʻExplorer.exe .` will launch the following explorer

(* I think that there are differences in files etc. depending on the environment, so please look at the image that a directory like this is opened to the last)

5. Setting environment variables

Open .bashrc with a text editor, add the following line and save.

.bashrc

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH

After that, restart the command prompt or terminal and start WSL again.

6. Make sure Go is installed

After launching with the wsl command, make sure that it is installed with the go version.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.572]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\sola>wsl
root@sola-pc:/mnt/c/Users/sola# go version
go version go1.15.3 linux/amd64
root@sola-pc:/mnt/c/Users/sola#

Reference URL

• Download and install - The Go Programming Language
• How to install and setup Golang development under WSL 2 | by Ben Braunstein | Medium