x/tools/cmd/getgo: error "go: cannot find GOROOT directory: /usr/local/go"

[Deleplace]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

none

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

(no go env)
Linux SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64

What did you do?

Created a new small GCE instance (1 vcpu, 4GB memory)
Opened SSH access
Copy-pasted and executed the one-liner go installer :

curl -LO https://get.golang.org/$(uname)/go_installer && chmod +x go_installer && ./go_inst
aller && rm go_installer

And then

go version

What did you expect to see?

Some recent go1.8.3 version number

What did you see instead?

go: cannot find GOROOT directory: /usr/local/go

Same error message for go doc fmt or go get github.com/gorilla/mux.
See this gist for complete terminal trace.

[seankhliao]

From the docs

Your Install as a local user (to $HOME/.go) counts as a custom location and as such GOROOT and GOPATH should be manually set

export GOROOT=$HOME/go1.X
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

[Deleplace]

Hello Sean Liao
The relevant doc is here : cmd/getgo
With this issue I was following instructions from this thread

The one-liner installer project is specifically designed "to both install Go as well as do the initial configuration of setting up the right environment variables and paths" so I don't have to do it myself.

I expect that all upcoming new issues with subject starting with "tools/cmd/getgo" (created by following the link given by Steven Francia) will be about this new tool and thus the official doc/install page won't apply for them.
Cheers

[Deleplace]

This seems to be fixed!
The exact same actions today give correct results:

$ go version
go version go1.9 linux/amd64