Install vim-go in linux?

Question

I would best be described as a dabbler at this point in linux/vim. I'm trying to get started with go. Trying to install the vim-go plugin and i'm having issues. Following the following post.

I added the following to the end of my ~/.bashrc file:

export GOPATH=~/gocode
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

and created the following directory ~/gocode

So i created my ~/.vim/bundle & ~/.vim/autoload directories. I downloaded pathogen.vim to the autoload directory. I cloned the github repository for vim-go into the bundle directory which created a vim-go directory.

I created my ~/.vimrc file and added the following:

call pathogen#infect()
syntax enable  
filetype plugin on  
set number  
let g:go_disable_autoinstall = 0

I executed the following from the vim console (which worked after installing Hg):

:GoInstallBinaries

FYI, i don't use vundle and to be honest don't even know what it is :).

So far the plugin doesn't seem to be working. When i type :help vim-go i get the following error: E149: Sorry, no help for vim-go

What am i do

Answer 1

Using the manual install method (copying vim-go/ to ~/.vim) I was able to get it working but only once I had the following ~/.vimrc file, and of course the Go binaries installed as per the instructions.

set nocompatible
set shell=/bin/sh
syntax on
filetype plugin on
let g:go_disable_autoinstall = 0

This was done on an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop with no other vim plugins or prior ~/.vim directory or ~/.vimrc. Frankly the official install instructions and many of the tutorials out there assume to much to be useful on a fresh install of Ubuntu.

However "help vim-go" was still not working for me. Tried the following command from within the ~/.vim directory and got that working: Vim helptag generation