Visual Studio Code using ?wrong? PATH, not finding GOPATH

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I have go installed.
$ which go
/usr/bin/go
Installed Visual Studio Code (VSC) bundle, 1.40.1
Launch Visual Studio Code from options or install launch.
VSC emits this message at bottom right of its UI:
Failed to run “go env” to find GOPATH as the “go” binary cannot be found in either GOROOT(/usr/lib/golang) or PATH(/app/bin:/usr/bin:/home/mark/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/data/node_modules/bin)

It does not looke like it is using my PATH. The reported error path does not match my environment PATH. A terminal session:
go env | grep GOPATH GOPATH="/home/mark/gocode" echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/haswell:/usr/bin:/opt/3rd-party/bin:/home/mark/bin:/home/mark/gocode/bin:/home/mark/flutter/bin:/usr/share/code/bin

A tar file of VSC 1.40, unpacked into a directory and executed from /home/mark/bin/VSCode-linux-x64.1.40.0/bin as ./code does not have this problem.

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The flatpak VSCode cannot recognize external PATH.

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Is there a workaround for this? Perhaps a way to inject PATH? Place a link to Go in the PATH list emitted by VSCode on the display?

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I understand that, and I am running the tarball. Does this mean the flatpak version is useless to me? I think I recall there are redistribution or update issues with the not-flatpak version?

Will there be a notice on the community at some point if we resolve this issue?

Thank you.

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Flatpak programs are sandboxed and this is a problem of flatpak instead of this distribution. I don’t know what is the problem with the tarball VSCode. As long as you don’t feel it, there’s no problem.

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Does someone find the way to set GOPATH in VSCode?
I’m new to Linux and it’s all is complicated for me.

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This distro is not intended for desktop usage or to be beginner friendly.

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Have you ever tried Jetbrain’s GoLand ?

I hear a lot of good things about it.

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Yes it is excellent. VSCODE is actually one of the better ones for go as well though …

You don’t do this in VSCODE. Do it in ~/.bashrc

Note: if you’re using the flatpak don’t bother. It won’t work and you’re wasting your time.

On Any Distro

in terminal:

go_version=1.15.6 # check https://golang.org/dl/ for current stable version 

mkdir -p ~/Projects/go/{src,pkg,bin}

curl -sL  "https://golang.org/dl/go${go_version}.linux-amd64.tar.gz" > go.tar.gz

tar -xvf go.tar.gz

sudo mv go/ /usr/local

cat <<'EOF' |  tee -a  ~/.bashrc
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=/home/$USER/Projects/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
EOF
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Many thanks for that complete information!