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## Setting up Go to work on Packer
## Setting up Go
If you have never worked with Go before, you will have to complete the following
steps in order to be able to compile and test Packer. These instructions target
If you have never worked with Go before, you will have to install it's
runtime in order to build packer.
1. [Install go](https://golang.org/doc/install#install)
## Setting up Packer for dev
If/when you have go installed you can already `go get` packer and `make` in
order to compile and test Packer. These instructions target
POSIX-like environments (Mac OS X, Linux, Cygwin, etc.) so you may need to
adjust them for Windows or other shells.
1. [Download](https://golang.org/dl) and install Go. The instructions below are
for go 1.7. Earlier versions of Go are no longer supported.
2. Set and export the `GOPATH` environment variable and update your `PATH`. For
example, you can add the following to your `.bash_profile` (or comparable
shell startup scripts):
```
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
```
## Setting up Packer for dev
1. Download the Packer source (and its dependencies) by running
`go get github.com/hashicorp/packer`. This will download the Packer source to