go install always attempts to use GOROOT and GOPATH is not listed under go env

Question

I\'m having a quite frustrating problem with the GOPATH, which, despite being set in .profile, is not appearing when invoking go env,

Answer 1

GOPATH and workspaces

$ mkdir -p $HOME/dev/go/src
$ mkdir -p $HOME/dev/go/bin

In $HOME/.profile:

export GOPATH=$HOME/dev/go:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/dev/go/bin

Then reboot or log out and log in.

As soon as you have logged in, before anything else, run:

$ env | grep -i '^GO'
GOPATH=/home/me/dev/go
$ cat $HOME/.profile

What output do you get?