Removing packages installed with go get

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I ran go get package to download a package before learning that I needed to set my GOPATH otherwise that package sullies my root Go install  I would much prefer to keep my Go install clean and separate core from custom   How do I remove packages installed previously

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It s safe to just delete the source directory and compiled package file   Find the source directory under  GOPATH src and the package file under  GOPATH pkg  lt architecture gt   for example   GOPATH pkg windows amd64

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bin bash  goclean      local pkg  1  shift    return 1  local ost  local cnt  local scr     Clean removes object files from package source directories  ignore error   go clean -i  pkg  amp  gt  dev null     Set local variables        uname -m       x86 64         amp  amp  ost    uname   ost    ost    amd64      amp  amp  cnt    pkg              Delete the source directory and compiled package directory ies   if       cnt       2     then   rm -rf    GOPATH      src   pkg        rm -rf    GOPATH      pkg   ost    pkg       elif       cnt    gt   2     then   rm -rf    GOPATH      src   pkg          rm -rf    GOPATH      pkg   ost    pkg         fi     Reload the current shell  source    bashrc     Usage     Either launch a new terminal and copy  goclean  into the current shell process     or create a shell script and add it to the PATH to enable command invocation with bash   goclean github com your-username your-repository

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You can delete the archive files and executable binaries that go install  or go get  produces for a package with go clean -i importpath     These normally reside under  GOPATH pkg and  GOPATH bin  respectively   Be sure to include     on the importpath  since it appears that  if a package includes an executable  go clean -i will only remove that and not archive files for subpackages  like gore gocode in the example below   Source code then needs to be removed manually from  GOPATH src   go clean has an -n flag for a dry run that prints what will be run without executing it  so you can be certain  see go help clean   It also has a tempting -r flag to recursively clean dependencies  which you probably don t want to actually use since you ll see from a dry run that it will delete lots of standard library archive files   A complete example  which you could base a script on if you like     go get -u github com motemen gore    which gore  Users ches src go bin gore    go clean -i -n github com motemen gore    cd  Users ches src go src github com motemen gore rm -f gore gore exe gore test gore test exe commands commands exe commands test commands test exe complete complete exe complete test complete test exe debug debug exe helpers test helpers test exe liner liner exe log log exe main main exe node node exe node test node test exe quickfix quickfix exe session test session test exe terminal unix terminal unix exe terminal windows terminal windows exe utils utils exe rm -f  Users ches src go bin gore cd  Users ches src go src github com motemen gore gocode rm -f gocode test gocode test exe rm -f  Users ches src go pkg darwin amd64 github com motemen gore gocode a    go clean -i github com motemen gore       which gore    tree  GOPATH pkg darwin amd64 github com motemen gore  Users ches src go pkg darwin amd64 github com motemen gore  0 directories  0 files    If that empty directory really bugs you      rmdir  GOPATH pkg darwin amd64 github com motemen gore    rm -rf  GOPATH src github com motemen gore   Note that this information is based on the go tool in Go version 1 5 1

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