Installing packages in a local directory

Question

What is the best practice to install packages (those with go get...) in a local directory?

Example: I\'d like to try out the Revel web framework, but I don\

Answer 1

To expand on keks answer, you can update your .bashrc to look like this

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=~/workspace/me/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

Now all packages installed with go get are separate from the go distribution.