I believe the problem is your environment variable GOPATH, to GOROOT seems to be right.
You should point the variable to the directory you want to be your Workspace.
Here, for example, is configured like this:
$ go env
GOARCH="386"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="386"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/admin/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_386"
GCCGO="gccgo"
GO386=""
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m32 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build890319421=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
The environment variable GOROOT points to the installation files:
$ ls -la $GOROOT
total 168
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 24 18:16 .
drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 4096 May 30 10:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 24 18:15 api
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33243 May 24 18:15 AUTHORS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 09:36 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 24 18:16 blog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1366 May 24 18:15 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45710 May 24 18:15 CONTRIBUTORS
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May 24 18:15 doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5686 May 24 18:15 favicon.ico
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 24 18:15 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1479 May 24 18:15 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 24 18:16 misc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1303 May 24 18:15 PATENTS
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 24 18:16 pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1399 May 24 18:15 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 May 24 18:15 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4096 May 24 18:15 src
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 12288 May 24 18:15 test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 May 24 18:15 VERSION
And the environment variable GOPATH points to where my Workspace is:
$ ls -la $GOPATH
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 4096 Aug 7 20:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin admin 4096 Sep 15 07:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 Aug 16 02:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Aug 7 20:10 pkg
drwxr-xr-x 8 admin admin 4096 Aug 7 21:55 src
Just create the folder src and put your source code in there, the rest of the folders are usually created as you compile code with the go build.
Did you ever see that question on Soen ? seems to be the same problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15846914/go-install-always-attempts-to-use-goroot-and-gopath-is-not-listed-under-go-env
– AnthraxisBR
the question in
SOenthis with a different error to what I quoted, even if I apply the solution proposed in the post I get the errorGOPATH entry is relative; must be absolute path: "".– RFL