How to use package manager, gopm

Question

I am in the process of experimenting with the various package manager offerings on, well, offer for Go. I like what I read in gopm - simple. However, thus far I cannot get past the very first hurdle. Here is what I am doing

• Install gopm from source via go get github.com/gpmgo/gopm
• Check that it did install. whereis gopm returns /opt/gopkg/bin/gopm
• For good measure check my environment variables. echo $GOPATH returns /opt/gopkg.

• Create main.go under /var/www/html/rest. The code reads

  package main import("github.com/astaxie/beego")

  func main(){ println("Beego version:beego.VERSION) }

• Create the .gopmfile. It reads [target] path=rest

• Switch to the /var/www/html/rest folder. At this point it contains

  root root 20 Jun 25 09:13 .gopmfile root root 107 Jun 25 09:13 main.go

• Now issue a gopm build. which comes back with [GOPM] 15-06-25 09:28:13 [FATAL]: package not installed github.com/astaxie/beego

• Examine the /var/www/html/rest folder. It now contains an additional folder .vendor which in turn contains the folder src which in turn has a symlink to the /var/www/html/rest folder.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

You did not include the dependencies section in your .gopmfile file, which should look something like this:

[target]
path = rest

[deps]
github.com/astaxie/beego = tag:v0.9.0