GOPATH entry cannot start with shell...

[scriptzteam]

path should be /go and not ~/go beacause of this:

root@xxx:# go get github.com/madcowfred/GoPostStuff
go: GOPATH entry cannot start with shell metacharacter '': "~/go"

and:

root@xxx:~# go get github.com/madcowfred/GoPostStuff
package code.google.com/p/gcfg: unable to detect version control system for code.google.com/ path

[jonascj]

I had to do export GOPATH="/home/username/go".
"/go" seems to indicate a folder go in the root of the filesystem, which might work, but not what I wanted.

[f-a-a]

Just wanna add that I find that doing

export GOPATH="$HOME/go"

feels 🏠-like

[jonascj]

or export GOPATH=~/go without quotes, with quotes ~ is not expanded and go complains.

[bamkikovic]

Thank you f-a-a
export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
IT WORKED