Installing Go in Ubuntu Jaunty

Processor: x86
Operating System: Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

1. CONFIGURE THE ENVIRONMENT
Set the necessary variables in your .bashrc that is if you are using bash. Assuming you have a 386-descendant processor and you want to keep the installation clean in an external disk (/media/disk).

# Google Go Programming Language Settings
export GOROOT=/media/disk/go
export GOARCH=386
export GOOS=linux
export GOBIN=/media/disk/go/bin

2. INSTALL MERCURIAL.
Easy.

$ sudo easy_install mercurial

Install process,

Searching for mercurial
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mercurial/
Reading http://www.selenic.com/mercurial
Best match: mercurial 1.3.1
Downloading http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.3.1.tar.gz
Processing mercurial-1.3.1.tar.gz
Running mercurial-1.3.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-a3YaRd/mercurial-1.3.1/egg-dist-tmp-VyNqd2
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
mercurial.lsprof: module references __file__
mercurial.templater: module references __file__
mercurial.extensions: module references __file__
mercurial.i18n: module references __file__
Adding mercurial 1.3.1 to easy-install.pth file
Installing hg script to /usr/local/bin
	
Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mercurial-1.3.1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
Processing dependencies for mercurial
Finished processing dependencies for mercurial

3. CHECKOUT GO USING MERCURIAL

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

Checkout process,

requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4016 changesets with 16888 changes to 2931 files
updating working directory
1640 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

4. BUILD GO

$ cd $GOROOT/src
$ ./all.bash

Build process,

--- cd pkg/exp/ogle
rm -rf *.[568vqo] *.a [568vq].out *.cgo[12].go *.cgo[34].c *.so _obj _test _testmain.go ogle
8g -o _go_.8 abort.go arch.go cmd.go event.go frame.go goroutine.go rruntime.go rtype.go rvalue.go process.go vars.go
rm -f _obj/exp/ogle.a
gopack grc _obj/exp/ogle.a _go_.8
8g -I_obj main.go
8l -L_obj -o ogle main.8
	
real	0m2.264s
user	0m1.496s
sys	0m0.136s
	
--- cd ../doc/progs
	
real	0m4.430s
user	0m3.144s
sys	0m0.444s
	
--- cd ../test/bench
fasta
reverse-complement
nbody
binary-tree
binary-tree-freelist
fannkuch
regex-dna
spectral-norm
k-nucleotide
mandelbrot
meteor-contest
pidigits
threadring
chameneosredux

It should end with the following lines,

--- cd ../test
0 known bugs; 0 unexpected bugs

5. ENJOY!