# Get Started

### Prerequisites

#### Go Binaries

Installation instructions for Go can be found[ here](https://go.dev/doc/install).

### Installation

1. Clone the gosdk repo

```
git clone https://github.com/0chain/gosdk.git
```

2. Save below code as `sdkversion.go` in the `gosdk` directory.

```
   package main

  import (
      "fmt"

      "github.com/0chain/gosdk/zcncore"
  )

  func main() {
      fmt.Println("gosdk version: ", zcncore.GetVersion())
  }
```

3. Run the below command to download the gosdk package: (if you don't have gosdk already in your GOPATH)

```
  go get github.com/0chain/gosdk
```

4. Build the sample application sdkversion using the command below

```
  go build -o sdkversion sdkversion.go
```

5. Run the executable

```
  ./sdkversion
```

6. If it prints the gosdk version installed then you have successfully installed 0chain gosdk.

    Sample Response:

```
   gosdk version:  v1.8.9-57-g7fbdcff
```