How do I SET the GOPATH environment variable on Ubuntu What file must I edit

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I am trying to do a go get   go get github com go-sql-driver mysql   and it fails with the following error   package github com go-sql-driver mysql  cannot download   GOPATH not set  For more details see  go help gopath   when I do a go env   a list of Go values is shown as below   ubuntu ip-xxx-x-xx-x    go env GOARCH  amd64  GOBIN    GOCHAR  6  GOEXE    GOHOSTARCH  amd64  GOHOSTOS  linux  GOOS  linux  GOPATH    GORACE    GOROOT   usr lib go  GOTOOLDIR   usr lib go pkg tool linux amd64  CC  gcc  GOGCCFLAGS  -g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread  CGO ENABLED  1    clearly the GOPATH is not set  how and where do I set it   I see many threads that mention this error but none that provide an answer to my question  which file needs to be edited to provide a value for this path

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You have to update the PATH based on the terminal(bash or zsh) which you use.

Open the shell script file of the terminal i.e ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc in an editor

   vi ~/.zshrc
      (or)
   code ~/.zshrc

Update the below GOPATH if already found or add the below line.

export GOPATH=$HOME/go:/$HOME/projects/go

Here you can add one or more paths separated by a semicolon : from different locations of your GO projects on the system to the GOPATH environment variable i.e /path/1:path/2:path/3 etc.

In my case, I have added 2 paths, as shown above, one from the root $HOME/go and the other one from the projects directory :/$HOME/projects/go

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GOPATH should be set to a newly created empty directory    This is the go  workspace   where it downloads packages  et cetera    I use    go   For example   mkdir    go echo  GOPATH  HOME  go   gt  gt     bashrc echo  export GOPATH   gt  gt     bashrc echo  PATH   PATH   GOPATH bin   Add GOPATH bin to PATH for scripting   gt  gt     bashrc source    bashrc   source   http   www larry-price com blog 2013 12 15 setting-up-a-go-environment-in-ubuntu-12-dot-04

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This script will help you switch Gopaths  https   github com buffonomics goswitch

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export GOPATH  path desired here   There is no need to edit any file  we can just use the command above to directly edit the Go environment variables

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You can use the  export  solution just like what other guys have suggested  I d like to provide you with another solution for permanent convenience  you can use any path as GOPATH when running Go commands   Firstly  you need to download a small tool named gost   https   github com byte16 gost releases   If you use ubuntu  you can download the linux version https   github com byte16 gost releases download v0 1 0 gost linux amd64 tar gz    Then you need to run the commands below to unpack it      cd  path to your download directory    tar -xvf gost linux amd64 tar gz   You would get an executable gost   You can move it to  usr local bin for convenient use     sudo mv gost  usr local bin   Run the command below to add the path you want to use as GOPATH into the pathspace gost maintains  It is required to give the path a name which you would use later     gost add foo  home foobar bar        foo  is the name and   home foobar bar  is the path   Run any Go command you want in the format    gost goCommand  -p  pathName   --  goFlags      goArgs       For example  you want to run go get github com go-sql-driver mysql with  home foobar bar as the GOPATH  just do it as below     gost get -p foo -- github com go-sql-driver mysql     foo  is the name you give to the path above    It would help you to set the GOPATH and run the command  But remember that you have added the path into gost s pathspace  If you are under any level of subdirectories of  home foobar bar  you can even just run the command below which would do the same thing for short      gost get -- github com go-sql-driver mysql   gost is a Simple Tool of Go which can help you to manage GOPATHs and run Go commands  For more details about how to use it to run other Go commands  you can just run gost help goCmdName  For example you want to know more about install  just type words below in     gost help install   You can also find more details in the README of the project  https   github com byte16 gost blob master README md

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Write this code in Terminal    export GOPATH path to your gopath directory   Note  This will reset on every new Terminal window or system restart    To be persistent  paste the code below in your  zshrc or  bashrc file according to your shell  Those files in your Home Directory  It will be like below   export PATH path to some other place composer for example export GOPATH path to your gopath directory export PATH  PATH  GOPATH bin

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export GOROOT  usr lib go export GOPATH  HOME go export PATH  PATH  GOROOT bin   And you may want to check by    go env

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You will need GOPATH later  too  So add it to    bashrc

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Yet another solution  Export every GO  environment variable from go env   bashrc   eval   go env   grep   GO A-Z0-9        while read setenv  do   echo  export  setenv    done 2 gt   dev null      -n  GOPATH       export GOPATH   HOME go bin     -n  GOROOT       export GOROOT  usr bin go export PATH   PATH  GOPATH bin  GOROOT bin

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This is what got it working for me on Ubuntu 15 10 using the fish shell        config fish config fish  set -g -x PATH  usr local bin  PATH set -g -x GOPATH  usr share go   Then I had to change the permissions on the go folder  it was set to root   sudo chown  lt name gt   lt name gt  -R  usr share go

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New Way  Go Modules  Since Go 1 11  you don t have to use GOPATH anymore  Simply go to your project directory and do this once   go mod init github com youruser yourrepo    With this  Go creates a module root at that directory  You can create as many modules as you want  For step by step instructions  also see this answer      Old Way  GOPATH  If you insist on working with GOPATH then heed this    Since Go 1 8  you don t need to set your GOPATH or GOROOT  GOPATH by default is under your user home directory    From the documentation      If no GOPATH is set  it is assumed to be  HOME go on Unix systems and  USERPROFILE  go on Windows  If you want to use a custom location as your workspace  you can set the GOPATH environment variable

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New Way   Check out this answer   Old Way   Just add the following lines to    bashrc and this will persist  However  you can use other paths you like as GOPATH instead of  HOME go in my sample   export GOPATH  HOME go export PATH  PATH  GOROOT bin  GOPATH bin

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If for example  it is an Ubuntu  after installing the packages    sudo apt install golang -y   Just add the following lines to    bashrc  Of your user   export GOROOT  usr lib go export GOPATH  HOME go export PATH  PATH  GOROOT bin  GOPATH bin

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At the end of the   profile file add   export GOPATH  quot  HOME go quot  export PATH  quot  PATH  usr local go bin quot  export PATH  quot  PATH  GOPATH bin quot

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go path could be every where you want just create a directory and set global path variable in the name of GOPATH to your environment   mkdir   go export GOPATH   go go get github com go-sql-driver mysql

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GOPATH is an environment variable to your work-space location   GOROOT is an environment variable to your installation directory  Although GOROOT and GOPATH is automatically set  if there would not be a bug  during the installation time  to specify it manually you can follow below process  Moreover  for more information you can refer to GO s wiki page   It is better to set GOPATH to a directory inside your home directory  e g    HOME go   USERPROFILE  go  Windows     This is a solution mac  which is tested on macOS Sierra  ver  10 12  and also in Gogland-EAP  which has been introduced as an IDE for Go programming by JetBrains    On your Terminal type   vim    profile   in opened document on the Terminal press i and add the following path  GOPATH  path to a directory inside home directory GOROOT  path to you go library PATH  PATH  GOPATH  GOROOT  GOROOT bin   press ESC and type  x  Lastly  you should restart  close and open  your terminal or Logout and Login again    For Windows and Linux configuration  please refer to Go wiki page at Githab on Setting GOPATH-Golang    CAUTION Do not set both GOROOT and GOPATH to the same directory  otherwise you will get a warning

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My go environment looked similar to yours     go env GOARCH  amd64  GOBIN    GOEXE    GOHOSTARCH  amd64  GOHOSTOS  linux  GOOS  linux  GOPATH    GORACE    GOROOT   usr lib go-1 6  GOTOOLDIR   usr lib go-1 6 pkg tool linux amd64  GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT  1  CC  gcc  GOGCCFLAGS  -fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length 0  CXX  g    CGO ENABLED  1    I resolved it with setting GOPATH to  usr lib go  Try it out   export GOPATH  usr lib go export PATH  PATH  GOPATH bin

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Ubuntu   If you don   t set a GOPATH  the default will be used   You have to add  GOPATH bin to your PATH to execute any binary installed in  GOPATH bin  or you need to type  GOPATH bin the-command   Add this to your    bash profile     export PATH  GOPATH bin  PATH   Current GOPATH command      go env GOPATH   Changing the GOPATH command      export GOPATH  HOME your-desired-path

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With Go 1 8  Q2 2017   you won t have to edit any file if you accept the default GOPATH value  set for you     HOME go   You can see the comments on issue 17262 and the associated twitter vote      By choosing a default GOPATH  we can make our documentation easier because we can say things like     go get github com foo bar      will check out the github com foo bar repo into  HOME go src github com foo bar       We don t need to distract newcomers with having to set an env var  all we need to do is put a little parenthetical note at the bottom of the page            HOME go is the default path to your go workspace      If you want to change this path  set the GOPATH variable to something of your choosing

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On my Fedora 20 machine I added the following lines to my    bashrc   export GOROOT  usr lib golang export GOPATH  HOME go export PATH  PATH  GOROOT bin  GOPATH bin

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As written in the official instructions      The GOPATH environment variable specifies the location of your workspace  It defaults to a directory named go inside your home directory  so  HOME go on Unix   home go on Plan 9  and  USERPROFILE  go  usually C  Users YourName go  on Windows  If you would like to work in a different location  you will need to set GOPATH to the path to that directory   Another common setup is to set GOPATH  HOME   Note that GOPATH must not be the same path as your Go installation    So for example  if you are coding in Jetbrains Webstorm  using the Go plugin   you might want to set GOPATH as  Users  lt user gt  WebstormProjects   In simpler words  set it to wherever you want your Go projects to reside

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Ubuntu 14 04  export GOPATH  HOME go   Additionally you can add this string to file   HOME  bashrc

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If you ve setup anything that needs modification of environment variables e g  Java  Go etc this will be very familiar   I will assume that you have the following directory structure somewhere as your Go path    --- folder name       ---bin      ---pkg      ---src    open a new terminal type sudo nano  etc environment find PATH     and go the end of it and add a colon   after the last path then paste in your full go path e g   home user gocode   and you re done  This should make it persistent through the system

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This has been the most annoying thing to deal with  In hopes of saving your time   IF go was installed as root user  The root user of your system s bash profile text file    bash profile needs to have  GOROOT assigned to the go install directory and  GOPATH needs to be assigned to go  src directory           sudo su         vi    bash profile         Story continues in vi editor         GOROOT  GOROOT  usr local go     GOPATH  GOPATH  usr local go src              your regular PATH stuff here            be sure the path to go binary is in your path on  bash profile  PATH  PATH  HOME bin  usr local bin  usr local go bin  This PATH can be as long a string it needs to be  to add new items just separate by colon    exit vi editor and saving bash profile   wq stands for write and quit       esc      shift            wq   You have to log out of terminal and log back in for profile to initiate again  or you can just kick start it by using export         export GOPATH  usr local go src   You can verify go env         go env   Yay   GOBIN    GOCHAR  6  GOEXE    GOHOSTARCH  amd64  GOHOSTOS  linux  GOOS  linux  GOPATH   usr local go src  GORACE    GOROOT   usr local go    Now you can sudo and go will be able to download and create directories inside go src and you can get down to what you were trying to get done   example     sudo go get github com      Now you will run into another problem  you might not have git installed  that s another adventure

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For Go 1 13   go env -w GOPATH  HOME go  To set the GOPATH regardless of the GO version add the following line to your    bashrc  export GOPATH  HOME go  and don t forget to source your  bashrc file  source    bashrc  More options on the golang official wiki  https   github com golang go wiki SettingGOPATH

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Edit your    bash profile to add the following line     export GOPATH  HOME work   Save and exit your editor  Then  source your    bash profile    source    bash profile   Note  Set the GOBIN path to generate a binary file when go install is run    export GOBIN  HOME work bin

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