There are a few packages I always install directly from source, to avoid lagging. Golang is one of them.

If you're using Debian, or some similar system, chances are your package manager will never deploy something beneath /opt. So in my case I configure golang to install in /opt/golang/

On this particular host I have only three packages here:

      $ ls /opt/
      arduino-1.8.0
      calibre
      go-1.8

I'm using xubuntu, how do I manage go through package manager?

I use godeb: https://github.com/niemeyer/godeb

It packages the go release into .deb files, which you then can manage using standard Debian tools.

Note that since it scrapes the release page for what releases are available, it won't be able to download 1.8 until it, you know, has actually been released, and sometimes the release page changes format upon a new release and it may take a bit for godeb to be updated.

I've just installed 1.8 through godeb, thank you!

Ty, I will try it

I'd encourage you to look at building from source[1] rather than using package managers or binaries. It's quite simple, let's you upgrade/downgrade at will and importantly makes cross compiling to other architecture/OS trivial.

https://golang.org/doc/install/source

you can use 'godeb' to install the latest version of golang. it transforms upstream tarballs for the Go language in deb packages and installs them.

Ty