Sorry, I'm new to go, so take this bug report with a grain of salt. Ran through the README's install instructions after installing go like so:

apt-get install golang
export GOPATH=$HOME/go

Here's the error I get:
https://gist.github.com/patcon/435bc7f8e0397a87763d

Running ubuntu precise 12.04

~$ go version
go version go1

Thanks!