While installing the golang executable is relatively straight forward:

#macOS
brew install go
#Ubuntu 14.04+
sudo curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local

Setting up the go workspace is a bit more invloved. Go expects code to reside in specific locations and you must tell go where these locations are.

Within your .profile, .bashrc or the equivelent for whatever shell you are using set the following variables:

First set the GOROOT, this is where typically system wide packages are held. Good defaults would be:

#macOS 
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
#Ubuntu 14.04+
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go

Next you need to setup your workspace

Go workspaces can reside where you want but the need a particular structure:

| _ [SOME DIRECTORY]
    | _ bin 
    | _ lib
    | _ src

You now need to tell go where this workspace is by:

export GOPATH=[SOME DIRECTORY]

Now you should be ready to go after you load in the enviorment: source .profile, .bashrc or the equivelent for whatever shell

Go projects typically are located according to url, so ACM’s groot-api-gateway package will be located at [SOME DIRECTORY]/src/github.com/acm-uiuc/groot-api-gateway

Maintaining such consistency allows you to use tools like go get and go install with little trouble as they will follow this convention