Where does go get install packages?

[Dean Schulze]

I thought I understood how go get works, but apparently not.  I have GOPATH set to ~/src/golang/go3p and I execute this command

go get github.com/gorilla/mux

Nothing was installed in ~/src/golang/go3p.  When I search the go installation directory itself there is nothing named mux or gorilla.  The docs don't say anything about where go get installs packages.

What does go get actually do?

Thanks.

[Dave Cheney]

go get installs packages to the first component of $GOPATH

if you

export GOPATH=$HOME/src/golang/go3p

then go get github.com/gorilla/mux

will result in the source being checked out into

$HOME/src/golang/go3p/src/github.com/gorilla.mux

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[Justin Wilson]

Have you searched for files, within those packages, on your disk to see where they did get installed?
Doing anything like `sudo go get...`??

[Dean Schulze]

Turns out I have to go3p/ directories. It got installed in the one on
the GOPATH as you said.

It would be good to include in the docs and the "go get --help" where
"go get" actually installs things. It currently doesn't say that it
installs packages in the first component of the GOPATH.

[Benjamin Measures]

On Friday, 25 October 2013 21:34:43 UTC+1, Dean Schulze wrote:

It would be good to include in the docs and the "go get --help" where
"go get" actually installs things.  It currently doesn't say that it
installs packages in the first component of the GOPATH.

It does mention 'go help packages' and 'go help remote', both of which explain paths more detail (and also suggest 'go help gopath').

Admittedly though, a quick "new packages are always downloaded into the first directory in the [GOPATH] list" could be repeated (a third time) here.

[Dean Schulze]

The "go help packages" isn't any help at all in determining where a package will be installed.  I would expect to find what "go get" does and where it does it in "go get --help"

Help is sometimes used to refresh what we already know, but a lot of us don't already know it.   The help system should be intuitive.  I would expect "go get --help" to explain what "go get" does.

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