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The glide install command returns [ERROR] $GOPATH is not set

Im trying to install https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd

I followed the instructions (with the exception of adding sudo) by first installing glide like so

sudo go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide

Then I cloned the repo to the appropriate folder like so

git clone https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd $GOPATH/src/github.com/btcsuite/btcd

Now the repo is located at this folder: /Users/yako/go/src/github.com/btcsuite/btcd

The problem occurs when I run sudo glide install in the folder. I get [ERROR] $GOPATH is not set.

Im pretty sure I did set these correctly thought as the go env GOROOT GOPATH command returns

/usr/local/go /Users/yako/go

and echo $GOROOT returns /usr/local/go and echo $GOPATH returns /Users/yako/go

Solution

  • It's probably failing when you run it as sudo, because sudo has a different environment than your user. So a) you need to set GOPATH for that command, and b) you shouldn't need sudo for glide's installation or using it as long as $GOPATH is readable, writeable and executable by you. I don't know why btcd says to use it