Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes
by sfifs on Friday February 17, 2017 @12:05AM
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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