gccgo software package provides Go compiler, based on the GCC backend, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gccgo
gccgo is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gccgo package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gccgo *
You will get with gccgo package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | gccgo |
| Version | 4:6-20160210-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | Go compiler, based on the GCC backend |
| Sub Section | Devel |
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