Why can I not install external packages?

[Tenjin]

So I am using WSL2 to develop using golang but for some reason I am unable to use other peoples packages.

For example: I am wanting to use the sql driver https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql I am able to go get it and it says it is downloading then it downloads but when I go to use it in my project it just says there is no go mod file, so I was going to use that to manage packages but when I run "go init" it just says initializing git repo and then does not create a go mod file.

I do not mind which way I have to use to get the driver working I just need to get it working. One more thing, I cannot install any packages its not just the sql driver.

Here is my gopath: /home/<username>/go

[Brian Candler]

... Try the following:

mkdir myprog

cd myprog

go mod init myprog

... now use your editor to create main.go which references some third-party package, here is a minimal example:

--------------

package main

import _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"

func main() {

}

--------------

... then:

go mod tidy

go build .

[Jan Mercl]

In your module directory:

$ go mod init example.com/foo/bar
$ go mod tidy
$ GO111MODULE=on go build -v -x

The last line just verifies if it works and should possibly reveal why, if not.

> Here is my gopath: /home/<username>/go

In your setup the value of $GOPATH should not matter.

[Tenjin]

There we go!

It is now working thanks alot guys.