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Installing Go on Ubuntu is pretty easy. We can do that with apt-get manager but i preffer to do it with downloading from official site.
Last version of the time of writing this is 1.5. So we can download it from https://golang.org/dl/ 
curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
After that we must unpack it into 
/usr/local

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz

After that we must set some 
env
variables. 
mkdir -p ~/go
echo "export GOPATH=$HOME/go" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
And finally we have it: 
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
    }
}

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