Installing Gonic on POP! OS Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps required to install Gonic, a highly performant framework to build APIs using Go language, on a POP! OS Latest system.

Prerequisites

To follow this tutorial, you need to have the following prerequisites:

  • POP! OS Latest system installed on your computer
  • Basic knowledge of navigating a terminal
  • Golang installed and configured on your system

Step 1: Install Git

To download Gonic from GitHub, you need Git installed on your system. If you don't have it installed, run the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

Step 2: Download and Install Gonic

Now that you have Git installed, you can proceed with downloading and installing Gonic by following these steps:

  1. Open a terminal and navigate to a directory where you want to download Gonic codebase.
  2. Use the git clone command to download the code repository from GitHub. Run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/sentriz/gonic.git
  1. Navigate to the gonic directory by running the following command:
cd gonic
  1. Build the Gonic executable by running the following command:
go build .
  1. The above command will create an executable file in the gonic directory. We'll move this file to the /usr/local/bin directory so that you can call the gonic command from anywhere in your system. Run the following command:
sudo mv gonic /usr/local/bin/

Step 3: Verify Gonic Installation

To verify that Gonic is installed and working correctly, run the following command:

gonic version

If everything is correctly configured, you should see Gonic's version displayed in the output.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Gonic on your POP! OS Latest system!

Now, you can use Gonic to create and develop APIs in Go.