Quick & Easy: Install Golang 1.14.3 on Ubuntu 20.04

Install

• sudo apt-get remove golang --purge
• curl -LO https://get.golang.org/$(uname)/go_installer && chmod +x go_installer && ./go_installer && rm go_installer
• source $HOME/.bash_profile

compile something

• go get github.com/ncw/rclone
• $HOME/go/bin/rclone help

if you get process killed try

• go get -d github.com/ncw/rclone
• go build ./go/src/github.com/ncw/rclone
• go install ./go/src/github.com/ncw/rclone
• $HOME/go/bin/rclone

enable more swap if you have a 512MB VPS

• sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
• sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
• sudo mkswap /swapfile
• sudo swapon /swapfile