I ran go get package to download a package before learning that I needed to set my GOPATH otherwise that package sullies my root Go install (I would much prefer to keep my Go install clean and separate core from custom). How do I remove packages installed previously?
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It's safe to just delete the source directory and compiled package file. Find the source directory under $GOPATH/src and the package file under $GOPATH/pkg/<architecture>, for example: $GOPATH/pkg/windows_amd64.
You can delete the archive files and executable binaries that go install (or go get) produces for a package with go clean -i importpath.... These normally reside under $GOPATH/pkg and $GOPATH/bin, respectively.
Be sure to include ... on the importpath, since it appears that, if a package includes an executable, go clean -i will only remove that and not archive files for subpackages, like gore/gocode in the example below.
Source code then needs to be removed manually from $GOPATH/src.
go clean has an -n flag for a dry run that prints what will be run without executing it, so you can be certain (see go help clean). It also has a tempting -r flag to recursively clean dependencies, which you probably don't want to actually use since you'll see from a dry run that it will delete lots of standard library archive files!
A complete example, which you could base a script on if you like:
$ go get -u $ which gore /Users/ches/src/go/bin/gore $ go clean -i -n cd /Users/ches/src/go/src/ rm -f gore gore.exe gore.test gore.test.exe commands commands.exe commands_test commands_test.exe complete complete.exe complete_test complete_test.exe debug debug.exe helpers_test helpers_test.exe liner liner.exe log log.exe main main.exe node node.exe node_test node_test.exe quickfix quickfix.exe session_test session_test.exe terminal_unix terminal_unix.exe terminal_windows terminal_windows.exe utils utils.exe rm -f /Users/ches/src/go/bin/gore cd /Users/ches/src/go/src/ rm -f gocode.test gocode.test.exe rm -f /Users/ches/src/go/pkg/darwin_amd64/ $ go clean -i $ which gore $ tree $GOPATH/pkg/darwin_amd64/ /Users/ches/src/go/pkg/darwin_amd64/ 0 directories, 0 files # If that empty directory really bugs you... $ rmdir $GOPATH/pkg/darwin_amd64/ $ rm -rf $GOPATH/src/ Note that this information is based on the go tool in Go version 1.5.1.
A go package can be removed as follows.
go get package@none Here @none is the version part set as none. Thus removing the package.
You can use go mod tidy to clean unused packages
#!/bin/bash goclean() { local pkg=$1; shift || return 1 local ost local cnt local scr # Clean removes object files from package source directories (ignore error) go clean -i $pkg &>/dev/null # Set local variables [[ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64" ]] \ && ost="$(uname)";ost="${ost,,}_amd64" \ && cnt="${pkg//[^\/]}" # Delete the source directory and compiled package directory(ies) if (("${#cnt}" == "2")); then rm -rf "${GOPATH%%:*}/src/${pkg%/*}" rm -rf "${GOPATH%%:*}/pkg/${ost}/${pkg%/*}" elif (("${#cnt}" > "2")); then rm -rf "${GOPATH%%:*}/src/${pkg%/*/*}" rm -rf "${GOPATH%%:*}/pkg/${ost}/${pkg%/*/*}" fi # Reload the current shell source ~/.bashrc } Usage:
# Either launch a new terminal and copy `goclean` into the current shell process, # or create a shell script and add it to the PATH to enable command invocation with bash. goclean Man, i got same problem yesterday. Could't find anything in $GOPATH/pkg/<architecture> . Then, i realized that there was a go directory in my $HOME. So, i moved to $HOME/<username>/go/pkg/mod/github.com and saw all package i had installed from github by go get
