Installing newest Go version on Amazon EC2 Instance (Ubuntu)

howto.txt

#1 Download and uncompress 
sudo curl -o <Download link>
sudo tar -xvf <tar file>

#2 Move the directory
sudo mv go /usr/local

#3 Edit .profile
sudo nano ~/.profile

#4 Add this to the last line
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

#5 export the env variables
export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

#6 update .profile
source ~/.profile