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You will need a current version of Go on your Linode. Read our guide on [installing Go](/docs/development/go/install-go-on-ubuntu/).

1. Pull Caddy from the source. If you followed our guide on installing Go, the `$GOPATH` is `/usr/local/go`, otherwise use `$GOPATH/drc`
1. Print your Go installation's current `$GOPATH`:

go env GOPATH

1. Pull Caddy from the source. Replace `$GOPATH` with the path retrieved in the previous step.

cd $GOPATH/src
go get -u github.com/mholt/caddy
go get -u github.com/caddyserver/builds

2. Navigate to the Caddy directory and start the build:

cd $GOPATH/src/go/src/github.com/mholt/caddy
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mholt/caddy/caddy
go run build.go -goos=linux -goarch=amd64

3. When the build finishes you will have a Caddy binary in the current directory. Move the binary to `/usr/bin` so that Caddy can function correctly:
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