package github.com/google/go-github/v29/github: cannot find package "github.com/google/go-github/v29/github" in any of:

[Starwort]

How have you installed cordless

• Arch User Repository
• Snap
• scoop
• brew
• go get

What happened, How do you reproduce this bug, Error output

starwort@Starlight:~/go$ go get -u github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
package github.com/google/go-github/v29/github: cannot find package "github.com/google/go-github/v29/github" in any of:
        /usr/lib/go-1.12/src/github.com/google/go-github/v29/github (from $GOROOT)
        /home/starwort/go/src/github.com/google/go-github/v29/github (from $GOPATH)

How to fix

go get -u github.com/google/go-github/github seems to work but I suspect that isn't the most stable way of doing it
Could also be something to do with GO111MODULE=on but it doesn't seem to be an environment variable

System information

Key	Value
OS	WSL Ubuntu 18.04
Architechture	Linux 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft x86_64

[Bios-Marcel]

go version?

[Bios-Marcel]

Oh, my question has answered itself. You have go 1.12. In go 1.12 GO_111MODULE is on auto. Since 1.13 it's on. Try forcing it to on

[Starwort]

Ok, but I don't use go - how do I do that? ^^'
The documentation for it I saw all said 'set GO_111MODULE' but it doesn't seem to be a BASH variable...

TIA

[Bios-Marcel]

Well, set the environment variable with that name. It's not a go thing and not a cordless thing.
Just a shell thing. You can simply put export GO111MODULE=on in your ~/.bashrc.

[Starwort]

Ahhhhh, thanks! Trying that now

[Starwort]

Appears to work (although now I'm getting a lot of terminal spam!). Maybe you should update the documentation that specifies go 1.12+ :P

[Bios-Marcel]

terminal spam?

[Starwort]

From installing packages (or pieces of go software. Idk)

[Bios-Marcel]

That's normal. It's just telling you which dependencies it's getting in order to do the compilation.