cannot download, $GOPATH not set

Question

I want to install json2csv using go get github.com/jehiah/json2csv but I receive this error:

package github.com/jehiah/json2csv: cannot download         


        

Answer 1

Your $GOROOT should not be set up. You $GOPATH should be set to $HOME/go by typing export $GOPATH=$HOME/go

Please type export GOROOT="" to fix your problem.

Answer 2

Just do export GOPATH="/whatever/you/like/your/GOPATH/to/be".

Answer 3

This problem occured to me in raspberry pi. I had logged in through VNC client The problem persisted despite setting and exporting the GOPATH. Then Ran the "go get" command without sudo and it worked perfectly.

Answer 4

[Update: as of Go 1.8, GOPATH defaults to $HOME/go, but you may still find this useful if you want to understand the GOPATH layout, customize it, etc.]

The official Go site discusses GOPATH and how to lay out a workspace directory.

export GOPATH="$HOME/your-workspace-dir/" -- run it in your shell, then add it to ~/.bashrc or equivalent so it will be set for you in the future. Go will install packages under src/, bin/, and pkg/, subdirectories there. You'll want to put your own packages somewhere under $GOPATH/src, like $GOPATH/src/github.com/myusername/ if you want to publish to GitHub. You'll also probably want export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin in your .bashrc so you can run compiled programs under $GOPATH.

Optionally, via Rob Pike, you can also set CDPATH so it's faster to cd to package dirs in bash: export CDPATH=.:$GOPATH/src/github.com:$GOPATH/src/golang.org/x means you can just type cd net/html instead of cd $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/net/html.

Keith Rarick notes you can set GOPATH=$HOME to put Go's src/, pkg/ and bin/ directories right under your homedir. That can be nice (for instance, you might already have $HOME/bin in your path) but of course some folks use multiple workspaces, etc.

Answer 5

(for MAC)

I tried all these answers and, for some still unknown reason, none of them worked.

I had to "force feed" the GOPATH by setting the environment variable per every command that required it. For example:

sudo env GOPATH=$HOME/goWorkDirectory go build ...

Even glide was giving me the GOPATH not set error. Resolved it, again, by "force feeding": I tried all these answers and, for some still unknown reason, none of them worked.

I had to "force feed" the GOPATH by setting the environment variable per every command that required it.

sudo env GOPATH=$HOME/goWorkDirectory glide install

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 6

I had to run an application as root (to open a webserver on port 80), this produced the error for me, because the sudo user has a different environment than the normal user, hence GOPATH was not set.

If someone else is having this problem, add -E to the command, this will preserve the user environment.

sudo -E go run main.go

For more infos see discussion here: Google Groups – GOPATH Problem