diff --git a/src/goCheck.ts b/src/goCheck.ts
index d340aab65..6c912efd5 100644
--- a/src/goCheck.ts
+++ b/src/goCheck.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,18 @@ export interface ICheckResult {
 	severity: string;
 }
 
-function runTool(cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string, severity: string, useStdErr: boolean, toolName: string, notFoundError?: string) {
+/**
+ * Runs given Go tool and returns errors/warnings that can be fed to the Problems Matcher
+ * @param args Arguments to be passed while running given tool
+ * @param cwd cwd that will passed in the env object while running given tool
+ * @param serverity error or warning
+ * @param useStdErr If true, the stderr of the output of the given tool will be used, else stdout will be used
+ * @param toolName The name of the Go tool to run. If none is provided, the go runtime itself is used
+ * @param printUnexpectedOutput If true, then output that doesnt match expected format is printed to the output channel
+ */
+function runTool(args: string[], cwd: string, severity: string, useStdErr: boolean, toolName: string, printUnexpectedOutput?: boolean): Promise<ICheckResult[]> {
+	let goRuntimePath = getGoRuntimePath();
+	let cmd = toolName ? getBinPath(toolName) : goRuntimePath;
 	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
 		cp.execFile(cmd, args, { cwd: cwd }, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
 			try {
@@ -31,10 +42,15 @@ function runTool(cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string, severity: string, use
 					if (toolName) {
 						promptForMissingTool(toolName);
 					} else {
-						vscode.window.showInformationMessage(notFoundError);
+						vscode.window.showInformationMessage(`Cannot find ${goRuntimePath}`);
 					}
 					return resolve([]);
 				}
+				if (err && stderr && !useStdErr) {
+					outputChannel.appendLine(['Error while running tool:', cmd, ...args].join(' '));
+					outputChannel.appendLine(stderr);
+					return resolve([]);
+				}
 				let lines = (useStdErr ? stderr : stdout).toString().split('\n');
 				outputChannel.appendLine(['Finished running tool:', cmd, ...args].join(' '));
 
@@ -45,7 +61,10 @@ function runTool(cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string, severity: string, use
 						continue;
 					}
 					let match = /^([^:]*: )?((.:)?[^:]*):(\d+)(:(\d+)?)?:(?:\w+:)? (.*)$/.exec(lines[i]);
-					if (!match) continue;
+					if (!match) {
+						if (printUnexpectedOutput) outputChannel.appendLine(lines[i]);
+						continue;
+					}
 					let [_, __, file, ___, lineStr, ____, charStr, msg] = match;
 					let line = +lineStr;
 					file = path.resolve(cwd, file);
@@ -98,48 +117,39 @@ export function check(filename: string, goConfig: vscode.WorkspaceConfiguration)
 					args = ['test', '-copybinary', '-o', tmppath, '-c', '-tags', buildTags, ...buildFlags, '.'];
 				}
 				runTool(
-					goRuntimePath,
 					args,
 					cwd,
 					'error',
 					true,
 					null,
-					`Cannot find ${goRuntimePath}`
+					true
 				).then(result => resolve(result), err => reject(err));
 			});
 		});
 		runningToolsPromises.push(buildPromise);
 	}
 	if (!!goConfig['lintOnSave']) {
-		let lintTool = getBinPath(goConfig['lintTool'] || 'golint');
+		let lintTool = goConfig['lintTool'] || 'golint';
 		let lintFlags = goConfig['lintFlags'] || [];
 		let args = [...lintFlags];
 
-		if (lintTool === 'golint') {
-			args.push(filename);
-		}
-
 		runningToolsPromises.push(runTool(
-			lintTool,
 			args,
 			cwd,
 			'warning',
-			lintTool === 'golint',
-			lintTool === 'golint' ? 'golint' : null,
-			lintTool === 'golint' ? undefined : 'No "gometalinter" could be found.  Install gometalinter to use this option.'
+			false,
+			lintTool
 		));
 	}
 
 	if (!!goConfig['vetOnSave']) {
 		let vetFlags = goConfig['vetFlags'] || [];
 		runningToolsPromises.push(runTool(
-			goRuntimePath,
 			['tool', 'vet', ...vetFlags, filename],
 			cwd,
 			'warning',
 			true,
-			null,
-			`Cannot find ${goRuntimePath}`
+			null
 		));
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/goInstallTools.ts b/src/goInstallTools.ts
index 1ff821553..312d37233 100644
--- a/src/goInstallTools.ts
+++ b/src/goInstallTools.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ function getTools(goVersion: SemVersion): { [key: string]: string } {
 		tools['golint'] = 'github.com/golang/lint/golint';
 		tools['gotests'] = 'github.com/cweill/gotests/...';
 	}
+
+	if (goConfig['lintTool'] === 'gometalinter') {
+		tools['gometalinter'] = 'github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter';
+	}
+
 	return tools;
 }
 
@@ -121,9 +126,9 @@ function installTools(goVersion: SemVersion, missing?: string[]) {
 
 	// http.proxy setting takes precedence over environment variables
 	let httpProxy = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('http').get('proxy');
-	let env = Object.assign({}, process.env);
+	let envForTools = Object.assign({}, process.env);
 	if (httpProxy) {
-		env = Object.assign({}, process.env, {
+		envForTools = Object.assign({}, process.env, {
 			http_proxy: httpProxy,
 			HTTP_PROXY: httpProxy,
 			https_proxy: httpProxy,
@@ -131,15 +136,19 @@ function installTools(goVersion: SemVersion, missing?: string[]) {
 		});
 	}
 
-	// If the go.toolsGopath is set, use 
+  // If the go.toolsGopath is set, use 
  	// its value as the GOPATH for the "go get" child process.
 	let goConfig = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('go');
+  let envWithSeparateGoPathForTools = null;
 	if (goConfig['toolsGopath']) {
-		env['GOPATH'] = goConfig['toolsGopath'];
+    envWithSeparateGoPathForTools = Object.assign({}, envForTools, {GOPATH: goConfig['toolsGopath']});
 	}
 
 	missing.reduce((res: Promise<string[]>, tool: string) => {
 		return res.then(sofar => new Promise<string[]>((resolve, reject) => {
+			// gometalinter expects its linters to be in the user's GOPATH
+			// Therefore, cannot use an isolated GOPATH for installing gometalinter
+			let env = (envWithSeparateGoPathForTools && tool !== 'gometalinter') ? envWithSeparateGoPathForTools : envForTools;
 			cp.execFile(goRuntimePath, ['get', '-u', '-v', tools[tool]], { env }, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
 				if (err) {
 					outputChannel.appendLine('Installing ' + tool + ' FAILED');
@@ -147,7 +156,22 @@ function installTools(goVersion: SemVersion, missing?: string[]) {
 					resolve([...sofar, failureReason]);
 				} else {
 					outputChannel.appendLine('Installing ' + tool + ' SUCCEEDED');
-					resolve([...sofar, null]);
+					if (tool === 'gometalinter') {
+						// Gometalinter needs to install all the linters it uses.
+						outputChannel.appendLine('Installing all linters used by gometalinter....');
+						let gometalinterBinPath = getBinPath('gometalinter');
+						cp.execFile(gometalinterBinPath, ['--install'], (err, stdout, stderr) => {
+							if (!err) {
+								outputChannel.appendLine('Installing all linters used by gometalinter SUCCEEDED.');
+								resolve([...sofar, null]);
+							} else {
+								let failureReason = `Error while running gometalinter --install;; ${stderr}`;
+								resolve([...sofar, failureReason]);
+							}
+						});
+					} else {
+						resolve([...sofar, null]);
+					}
 				}
 			});
 		}));