How to install Go package manually from source code

Question

I'm living in China and is not able to download & install GO package through command (event I use the vpn network):

 go get -u <repo_url>

but I can access the repo_url and downloand its source code. So my question is can I put the scource code under src folder and run commamd ? :

go install 

if yes, what's the different betweeen the two way ?

Answer 1

for example, you have the repo_url at https://github.com/hello/example

You can do go get manually by

$ cd $GOPATH
$ mkdir -p src/github.com/hello
$ cd src/github.com/hello
$ git clone https://github.com/hello/example.git
$ cd example
$ go install

the binary will install into $GOPATH/bin

if the go program of the repo_url depends on other go package. you have to manually get it and put it to correct path location too.