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

Question

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

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '17 at 22:20

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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

answered Feb 26 '17 at 22:20

Jim Deville

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weird for some reason the owner on the `GOPATH` folder was set to root instead of my user... – Daniel Kobe Feb 26 '17 at 22:29
Odd. Maybe you used a tool to set it up running under sudo? – Jim Deville Feb 26 '17 at 22:30
I change it to readable/writable/exectuble by I still get this error when running glide install `Could not create vendor: mkdir vendor: permission denied` – Daniel Kobe Feb 26 '17 at 22:31
Im not sure if this matter but here are the permissions on my GOROOT folder `drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 Feb 16 10:01 go` – Daniel Kobe Feb 26 '17 at 22:32
can you run `mkdir vendor` in the directory where you are running `glide install`? – Jim Deville Feb 26 '17 at 22:35
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ok I didnt use the -R option when I ran `chown yako go` to change the owner so it didn't change the owners of the folders inside. we good now thanks! – Daniel Kobe Feb 26 '17 at 22:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '17 at 22:25

You don't need the sudo part of the command. Glide will download your dependencies on ~/go/src/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/vendor, so you don't need superuser permissions for anything. Since you're running the command as sudo your environment variables are not set as If you're executing your command as yako

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

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