在CentOS 5.x上安装Go

Question

I want to install Go on CentOS 5.x, but Go website here http://golang.org/doc/install mentions that it is not supported.

Is there still some way to install Go Language on CentOS since CentOS is just a different flavour of Linux?

When I installed the same and ran the sample program hello.go mentioned at above website I got the error hello.go:3:8: import "fmt": cannot find package package runtime: import "runtime": cannot find package

Answer 1

I'm affraid you're out of luck because of the bit too much aged kernel version of CentOS 5.x. If the go runtime uses features simply not present in that kernel, then I see no easy way how it could work.