Installing the QML Package for GO-1.2 Cannot Be Found - Xubuntu

Question

A Little Background: I am extremely new to GO and QML. The main reason I have been perusing the internet about them is because I am trying to build the Sublime Text clone Lime Text. I am on Xubuntu 13.10. I installed GO from the instructions under their 'Getting Started Section' on their website. I downloaded and unpacked the go1.2.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz tarball to my /usr/local/ folder. I added export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin, export GOROOT=/usr/local/go, export GOBIN=/usr/local/go/bin, and export GOPATH=$HOME/gocode to my .bashrc file.

I then could successfully follow the directions on the Lime Text github wiki for building and perform go get github.com/limetext/lime/frontend/termbox. I followed the rest of the instructions on their wiki page and everything seemed to execute sucessfully.

My problem is Lime Text requires that the GO QML package be installed. So I went to their git hub page and installed all of the QT dependencies that are suggested from the ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa repository. I have already installed GO so I don't re-install GO with the godeb program. I then perform go get gopkg.in/qml.v0 in my terminal. I don't get any messages to my terminal and assume that everything went fine. I then go back to the Lime Text build instructions and try to build the QML front end. I cd to cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/limetext/lime/frontend/qml and run the go build command. The output to my terminal is:

main.go:18:2: cannot find package "github.com/niemeyer/qml" in any of:
    /usr/local/go/src/pkg/github.com/niemeyer/qml (from $GOROOT)
    /home/jesse/gocode/src/github.com/niemeyer/qml (from $GOPATH)

I tried to use Catfish to search my whole system for the word 'niemeyer' to see if it was installed somewhere else but the search turned up nothing. I have tried running go get gopkg.in/qml.v0 a few more times and I get the same results. I don't know if I am doing something wrong with installing a package or have some other fundamental misunderstandings about GO.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I apologize for using any incorrect terminology here as well.

Answer 1

In the same place where you ran go build, run go get, no parameters. It will search the code base for all dependencies and download them. If you want, you can instead do go get -v, where -v stands for verbose. It will tell you exactly what it is downloading and building.

After that you should be able to go build successfully.