Why doesn't "go get" install the package to GOPATH?

Question

When I use go get command:

sudo go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep

My GOPATH is:

GOPATH="/home/hadoop/gopath"

and i found go get will create a new directory which named "go" in /home,and the dep package is in it, I want to know why not in GOPATH but to create a new directory?

sorry to comment late,I have understand why this happened, thank you all very much — Smallnine, May 10 '19 at 10:20

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '19 at 09:13

Because you are using sudo, the environment variables are not the same as the ones you see as yourself (your user).

You can, for example, use: sudo --preserve-env go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep but likely you will have problems with permissions and whatnot.

Better idea would be to just run go get without sudo - if the GOPATH is in your home directory I don't see a point to use sudo in the first place.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '19 at 09:13

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Refer to this How to keep environment variables when using sudo

So I believe the env is not set when you use sudo.

You can check GOPATH's value using this go env and sudo go env

answered May 09 '19 at 09:13

Ankit Deshpande

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score -2 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '19 at 09:13

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I have finished, if we do not use sudo , it will download to GOPATH, though I don't know why

answered May 09 '19 at 09:13

Smallnine

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because sudo runs as root and not as the user and because of that different env variables are used – Pizza lord - on strike May 09 '19 at 09:35

Why doesn't "go get" install the package to GOPATH?

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