Problems with installing third-party packages

[arammikayelyan]

It’s not the first time that I’m installing a third party go packages via go get -u github.com/ ....
The problem is that after “installing” the program that the package is providing is not available.

For instance, the errcheck program. In my command-line, I run go get -u github.com/kisielk/errcheck and it’s done without a problem. But what then? How can I use the errcheck program in the command-line?

Another example is go-bindata.

I tried to find any script in the errcheck package that supposedly would be the program but there was nothing like that?

What can you suggest?

Thanks

[petrus]

Command go

Executables are installed in the directory named by the GOBIN environment variable, which defaults to $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin if the GOPATH environment variable is not set.

Is your installation directory in your PATH environment variable?

[arammikayelyan]

Is there something wrong with my GOBIN path?

[arammikayelyan]

go env GOPATH – /home/aram/go

go env GOBIN – //home/aram/go/bin

[petrus]

What is your output from:

$ dir /home/aram/go/bin

$ which errcheck

$ env $PATH

[arammikayelyan]

1. asmfmt go-bindata godoctor go-outline goreturns goxygen motion cobra go-callvis gogetdoc gopkgs go-symbols guru re dlv gocode goimports goplay got hello rice errcheck gocode-gomod golangci-lint gopls gotags iferr shadow fillstruct go-code-visualizer golint gops gotest impl staticcheck first_webapp godef gomodifytags gorename gotests keyify tour

2. errcheck not found

3. env: ‘/home/aram/.nvm/versions/node/v13.3.0/bin:/home/aram/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/aram/.fzf/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/aram/.local/bin’: No such file or directory

[petrus]

@arammikayelyan

errcheck

errcheck is in dir /home/aram/go/bin

/home/aram/go/bin is not in env $PATH.

[arammikayelyan]

I added export GOPATH="$HOME/go" PATH="$PATH:GOPATH/bin" to my ~/.zshrc.

Now my env $PATH looks like this:
env: ‘/home/aram/.nvm/versions/node/v13.3.0/bin:/home/aram/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/aram/.fzf/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/aram/.local/bin:GOPATH/bin’: No such file or directory

[petrus]

@arammikayelyan

I added export GOPATH="$HOME/go" PATH="$PATH:GOPATH/bin" to my ~/.zshrc .

env: '... /home/aram/.local/bin:GOPATH/bin'

That didn’t work! You have GOPATH, not $GOPATH in your export statement`.

[arammikayelyan]

I fixed it and it worked. Thanks.