go install: no install location for directory outside GOPATH
Solution 1
The problem was as James Henstridge commented, for some reason there was an issue with my user directory name case. Even though the directory is lowercase, I had to make it capitalized.
This worked:
GOPATH=/Users/Daryl/go
This didn't:
GOPATH=$HOME/go
However, since moving to a rMBP from my iMac, I had no problems whatsoever setting up Go, so, to this day, I'm not sure what was going on, but in that instance the capitalization fixed it.
Solution 2
When you run go install
Go looks for $GOBIN
env variable path. Either you need to set your $GOBIN
to $GOPATH/bin
$ export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
and/or add $GOBIN
to your OS search path
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN
To use the command without getting the error.
Comments
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daryl almost 4 years
I installed the Go, then added path requirements to my
.bash_profile
:export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
I then setup the correct folders:
I also created a projected called tire. The contents for
main.go
are simply:package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Hello, world!") }
I always get the following error when I try to run
go install
:go install: no install location for directory /Users/Daryl/go/src/tire outside GOPATH
Here's what I get when I run
go env
:GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOCHAR="6" GOEXE="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="darwin" GOOS="darwin" GOPATH="/Users/daryl/go" GORACE="" GOROOT="/usr/local/go" GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64" TERM="dumb" CC="clang" GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fno-common" CXX="clang++" CGO_ENABLED="1"
Any help would be appreciated.