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 1. You need a Google Cloud Platform account with billing enabled. Visit
    [http://cloud.google.com/console](http://cloud.google.com/console) for more details.
 2. Make sure you can start up a GCE VM.  At least make sure you can do the [Create an instance](https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart#addvm) part of the GCE Quickstart.
-3. You must have Go installed: [www.golang.org](http://www.golang.org).
+3. You must have Go (version 1.2 or later) installed: [www.golang.org](http://www.golang.org).
 4. Ensure that your `gcloud` components are up-to-date by running `gcloud components update`.
 5. Get the Kubernetes source: