golint software package provides Linter for Go source code, 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 golint
golint is installed in your system.
Make ensure the golint package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep golint *
You will get with golint package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | golint |
| Version | 0.0+git20150623.7b7f436-1 |
| Description | Linter for Go source code |
| Sub Section | Devel |