When I go get a package (say, godoc), it wants to create and install it in /usr/lib/go/bin (this is an Ubuntu system using the stock Go packages).
This isn't cool, because like a good Debian user I only let .deb packages install stuff into /usr.
How do I convince it to install into either my GOPATH workspace, or somewhere under /usr/local?
The correct answer turned out to be installing the golang-go.tools package.
If you install Go with GVM instead of from apt they will be placed in ~/.gvm/gos/ or your $GOPATH instead.
https://github.com/moovweb/gvm
Also I don't think godoc comes with 1.3 anymore, it has to be installed from go.tools
http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/godoc
http://golang.org/doc/go1.2#go_doc
The "go doc" command is deleted.