[uriel]

There are Go packages for Debian and Ubuntu at least ( http://go-lang.cat-v.org/packages ) plus a binary distribution for Windows, and installing in other systems is quite trivial:

  $ hg clone -u release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ go
  $ cd go/src
  $ ./all.bash

[alec]

Last I checked a few months ago, if you want to use a distribution's version of Go, you must install all later libraries as root - there's no place for "my local libraries".

[uriel]

That sounds like a problem with the packaging for your distribution.

If you install Go the way golang.org instructions indicate, you can install everything as a non-root user just fine.