Installation Instructions Incorrect / go get fails

[vedantroy]

What version of the package or command are you using?

Not sure how to check. I just ran go get github.com/mholt/archiver/v3

What are you trying to do?

Install the package and use it.

What steps did you take?

Installed go on Windows.
Ran go get github.com/mholt/archiver/v3

What did you expect to happen, and what actually happened instead?

The package should successfully install.

This happened instead:

package github.com/mholt/archiver/v3: cannot find package "github.com/mholt/archiver/v3" in any of:
        c:\go\src\github.com\mholt\archiver\v3 (from $GOROOT)
        C:\Users\vroy1\go\src\github.com\mholt\archiver\v3 (from $GOPATH)

Doing go get github.com/mholt/archiver works better and throws the following error instead:

C:\Users\vroy1\Desktop\server>go get github.com/mholt/archiver/  
package github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3: cannot find package "github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3" in any of:
        c:\go\src\github.com\pierrec\lz4\v3 (from $GOROOT)
        C:\Users\vroy1\go\src\github.com\pierrec\lz4\v3 (from $GOPATH)

Please link to any related issues, pull requests, and/or discussion

#195

[NightMachinery]

github.com/mholt/archiver (download)
github.com/andybalholm/brotli (download)
github.com/dsnet/compress (download)
github.com/golang/snappy (download)
github.com/klauspost/compress (download)
github.com/klauspost/pgzip (download)
github.com/nwaples/rardecode (download)
github.com/pierrec/lz4 (download)
package github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3: cannot find package "github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3" in any of:
        /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec/src/github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3 (from $GOROOT)
        /home/eva/go/src/github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3 (from $GOPATH)
github.com/ulikunitz/xz (download)
github.com/xi2/xz (download)

[semilin]

I have found a very crude way of fixing this before a patch is made.

1. go get -u github.com/mholt/archiver
   This will return an error, that is ok.
2. cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mholt/archiver/
3. A couple of files will contain github.com/mholt/archiver/v3 in the import command. Remove the /v3 from these import files:

• lz4.go
• tarzl4.go
• tar_test.go (this one has github.com/mholt/archiver/v3 instead, do the same here)

4. Run go get -u github.com/mholt/archiver again.
   This should install with now errors.

[LiuWeiMr]

Is sloved? I hava same problem.

[coolaj86]

Install with Go

Install Go (if you don't have it)

Mac, Linux

curl https://webinstall.dev/golang | bash

Windows 10

curl.exe -A MS https://webinstall.dev/golang | powershell

Build archiver as arc

mkdir -p ~/github.com/mholt/
git clone https://github.com/mholt/archiver ~/github.com/mholt/archiver
pushd ~/github.com/mholt/archiver/
export CGO_ENABLED=0
go build -o arc cmd/arc/*.go

Install without Go

Mac, Linux

curl https://webinstall.dev/arc | bash

Windows 10

curl.exe -A MS https://webinstall.dev/arc | powershell

webi (Webinstall.dev) uses the Github releases API to download the arc binary to ~/.local/bin/arc and then updates your PATH.

[Dean-Coakley]

@coolaj86 Can this be closed or is there more details to add to: https://github.com/mholt/archiver#install ?

[coolaj86]

@Dean-Coakley Yes, this was fixed in #236 and I forgot to close it out. Thanks.

[AshDevFr]

This issue was closed but I still experience the issue when trying to use the library with Go:

$ go get github.com/mholt/archiver/v3
cannot find package "github.com/mholt/archiver/v3" in any of:
        /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/github.com/mholt/archiver/v3 (from $GOROOT)
        /Users/user1/.go/src/github.com/mholt/archiver/v3 (from $GOPATH)

$ go get github.com/mholt/archiver
cannot find package "github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3" in any of:
        /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3 (from $GOROOT)
        /Users/user1/.go/src/github.com/pierrec/lz4/v3 (from $GOPATH)

Am I missing some step here?

[coolaj86]

You probably need to run go mod init yourpackagenamegoeshere In the root of your package.

[coolaj86]

Also, you may need to upgrade to a recent version of Go or explicitly set GO111MODULE=on.

If you are just trying to install it as a binary, you can also use the github downloads or https://webinstall.dev/arc

[coolaj86]

Also, it looks like you may have installed Go from brew or some other package manager that gave you a modified version. I highly discourage that.

I’d recommend using https://webinstall.dev/golang which uses unadulterated official tar and zip packages from golang.org, and won’t mess up /usr/local permissions like the .pkg does.

If your .bashrc or .profile or .zshrc have been modified by brew you may need to manually inspect them, back them up, and remove any GO* variables that you see.

[AshDevFr]

Thank you for the help, I switched from a brew version to using the curl command and it seems to have fixed it.
Really good to know.