Building runC on Ubuntu

I just got really excited with runC after watching the intro presentation on dockercon and wanted to try it out. It seems my knowledge of go programming language and its ecosystem was just not enough to just go ahead and do it and a little bit of googling was required. To ease the pain for the newcomers here's how I did it.

First you need to clone the repository, obviously:

git clone https://github.com/opencontainers/runc

Then you need to make it. To do so you obviously need to have go installed. I installed mine from the following PPA

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:evarlast/golang1.4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang

Then you need to do the building

GOPATH="$(pwd)" PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin" make

The last step is installing it which needs to be done as root

sudo make install

That's it! Then you can go an play with runc - it's AWESOME!