dep ensure make: dep: Command not found on Ubuntu 16.04

[finid]

After typing make install, I got this error:

dep ensure
make: dep: Command not found
GNUmakefile:28: recipe for target 'dep' failed
make: *** [dep] Error 127

I know makedepend is available on the server, so I tried to cheat by symlinking /usr/bin/makedepend to /usr/bin/dep. It too failed with:

go get -u github.com/golang/dep/...
dep ensure
dep: error:  [mM]akefile is not present
GNUmakefile:28: recipe for target 'dep' failed
make: *** [dep] Error 1

Not sure what else to do, so welcome any ideas.

[finid]

Found the cause - failed to add GOPATH to PATH.

[RonnanSouza]

Found the cause - failed to add GOPATH to PATH.

Hello, I'm having the same problem of you, so what do you mean by add GOPATH to PATH?

[rakeshzingade]

install dep ref here: https://github.com/golang/dep
set GOPATH to your go installed dir say /home/myname/go then
export GOPATH=/home/myname/go

[sunidhichaudhary]

@rakeshzingade I did that but still the error continues to be bin/bash: dep: command not found

[rakeshzingade]

You may need to set PATH env to $GOPATH/bin

[barakat-abweh]

a small trick can help
ln -s /home/"your username"/go/bin/dep /usr/bin/

[HolimaX]

a small trick can help ln -s /home/"your username"/go/bin/dep /usr/bin/

Did not help for me in CircleCi cimg/go:1.16-browsers env:

GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/home/circleci/go/bin"
GOCACHE="/home/circleci/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/circleci/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/home/circleci/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/circleci/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.16.15"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/home/circleci/go/src/github.com/<some_repo>/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build2373454162=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"