gccgo-4.9 software package provides GNU Go compiler, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gccgo-4.9
gccgo-4.9 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gccgo-4.9 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gccgo-4.9 *
You will get with gccgo-4.9 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Development |
| Package | gccgo-4.9 |
| Version | 4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | GNU Go compiler |
| Sub Section | devel |