Installing on Linux Mint 19.3 (golang 1.10)

[ColinMaudry]

Hi,

I'm trying to install gojq on Mint 19.3, that comes with golang 1.10 in the repositories.

Here is the verbose output:

env GO111MODULE=on go get -v github.com/itchyny/gojq/cmd/gojq
Fetching https://golang.org/x/sys/unix?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/sys/unix?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/sys/unix": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/sys", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/sys"} at https://golang.org/x/sys/unix?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/sys/unix": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
Fetching https://golang.org/x/sys?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/sys?go-get=1 (status code 200)
golang.org/x/sys (download)
golang.org/x/sys/internal/unsafeheader
github.com/pbnjay/strptime
github.com/mattn/go-runewidth
github.com/fatih/color/vendor/golang.org/x/sys/unix
golang.org/x/sys/unix
github.com/pkg/errors
github.com/alecthomas/participle/lexer
gopkg.in/yaml.v3
github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime
github.com/alecthomas/participle
github.com/itchyny/gojq
github.com/fatih/color/vendor/github.com/mattn/go-isatty
github.com/mattn/go-isatty
github.com/itchyny/go-flags
github.com/fatih/color/vendor/github.com/mattn/go-colorable
# github.com/itchyny/gojq
go/src/github.com/itchyny/gojq/func.go:606:16: undefined: strings.ReplaceAll
go/src/github.com/itchyny/gojq/func.go:639:24: undefined: strings.ReplaceAll
go/src/github.com/itchyny/gojq/func.go:1574:7: undefined: strings.ReplaceAll
github.com/fatih/color
github.com/hokaccha/go-prettyjson

The source has been downloaded to $GOPATH/src/, but I think gojq has not been built as it's not in $GOPATH/bin.

[itchyny]

Golang 1.10 is too old not supported anymore so please update your Golang version. Golang's official Release Policy says that only two latest major releases are supported. Following that policy, gojq does not support Golang 1.10.

[ColinMaudry]

Updating to golang 1.14 did it 🎉

I followed this guide: https://tecadmin.net/install-go-on-ubuntu/