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I'm trying follow these instructions to install Drive but I can't get Go to work properly.

I keep getting the error:

go tool: no such tool "6g"

When I try to use go get [url]. I also get this error when trying to run a hello world script (to check that Go had installed correctly).

I've tried installing the individual programs recommended in this post (golang-go.tools gccgo-go) regarding fixing this error but the problem persists.

How can I get the 6g tool?

Here are the results of go env:

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCHAR="6"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/user/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/share/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/share/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
TERM="dumb"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
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  • did you set GOPATH and GOROOT? – Rinzwind Mar 07 '15 at 20:08
  • Yes, first I was getting an error regarding the GOPATH. I used [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21001387/how-do-i-set-the-gopath-environment-variable-on-ubuntu-what-file-must-i-edit) SO question to find the solution which then brought me to this next error that I can't fix. – Bprodz Mar 07 '15 at 20:18
  • Do you need the latest version of Go? It's far easier to install Go from the archive - `sudo apt-get install golang`. – Nathan Osman Mar 07 '15 at 20:36
  • @NathanOsman I don't think so, I just need to be able to compile a program that was written in Go (last September). I ran `sudo apt-get install golang` but it returned 0 to upgrade, newly install, 62 not to upgrade and I'm still unable to use `go get` and `go run`. Do I need to force apt-get to overwrite my current version of Go? – Bprodz Mar 07 '15 at 20:44

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The problem is your GOROOT. It should be set to /usr/lib/go (not /usr/share/go).

export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go
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Installation

  1. Update.

    sudo apt-get update

  2. Install Go language.

    sudo apt-get install golang

  3. Set GOPATH to your home folder. After this action, you can use command echo $GOPATH to check the go path location.

    export GOPATH=$HOME/gopath

  4. For the GOPATH, it is not required to define it. But you can still define it.

    # Get the go installation root path.
go env GOROOT

# Set the result of `go env GOROOT` to system variable GOROOT.
# In this example, the result of `go env GOROOT` is `/usr/lib/go-1.6`
export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.6

Checking Go Environment Variables

  1. Use command go env and you will get:

    GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/casper/gopath"
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"

  2. Now you can see that:

    a. GOPATH is in /home/casper/gopath.

    b. GOROOT is in /usr/lib/go-1.6.

References

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  • `golang` package is officially in repository, why should I add a PPA, where these PPAs are known for issues? – Anwar Aug 13 '16 at 08:35