go install: no install location for directory outside GOPATH

Question

I installed the Go, then added path requirements to my .bash_profile:

• export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• export GOPATH

Answer 1

I had the same problem in Windows 10,

So I set a system variable named GOBIN with absolute value F:\go\bin.

Then ran go install main.go and everything worked perfectly fine!

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.