即使配置了GOPTH，也无法下载fabric-sdk-go

Question

I am a newbie in GOlang and Hyperledger fabric, I was just configuring the environment. But I got a weird error that is given bellow

 user1@NTP-145UBUNTU:~$ go env
 GOARCH="amd64"
 GOBIN=""
 GOEXE=""
 GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
 GOHOSTOS="linux"
 GOOS="linux"
 GOPATH="/usr/lib/go-1.6/bin"
 GORACE=""
 GOROOT="/usr/lib/go-1.6"
 GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/go-1.6/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
 GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT="1"
 CC="gcc"
 GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0"
 CXX="g++"
 CGO_ENABLED="1"
 user1@NTP-145UBUNTU:~$ sudo go get -u github.com/hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go
 [sudo] password for user1: 
 package github.com/hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

It is saying that my GOPATH env variable is not set. I have configured it and its is showing in evn variable list also. If anyone in here faced this issue please help me. please note : I am using ubuntu 16 LTS

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You are executing go get with sudo. That will cause all your env variables to be lost, as the command gets executed as user root.

Usually this should not be necessary. $GOPATH is usually set to $HOME/go/. This is also the default value. You should set $GOPATH to this value. After that you do not have to call go get with sudo.

And as pizza lord suggested, you should update your go version.