Update README re: installing on linux; update to use go install and fix version tagging?

[szeitlin]

sudo yum install golang works

but go get github.com/peak/s5cmd doesn't work because go get has been deprecated in favor of go install, which did not work for me on my first try.

Currently trying go install github.com/peak/s5cmd@latest but it's slow and I can't tell if it's working or not. I volunteer to make this update if/when I can get it to work.

[szeitlin]

Looks like it's working, but slowly:
go: downloading github.com/peak/s5cmd v1.4.0

[szeitlin]

go: github.com/peak/s5cmd@latest: Lock go/pkg/mod/cache/download/github.com/peak/s5cmd/@v/v1.4.0.lock: input/output error

[szeitlin]

The go.mod file for the module providing named packages contains one or
more replace directives. It must not contain directives that would cause
it to be interpreted differently than if it were the main module.

[szeitlin]

Looks like 2.0.0 is actually the latest stable release, so I don't know why go install chose 1.4.0 as "latest"...

Maybe because of this:

go: github.com/peak/s5cmd@v2.0.0: github.com/peak/s5cmd@v2.0.0: invalid version: resolves to version v0.0.0-20220701153011-35bb2fa9ee3d (v2.0.0 is not a tag)

[szeitlin]

I ended up doing wget with the .tar.gz and then tar -xzf, chmod +x and I can run it as ./s5cmd which isn't exactly what I wanted, but it will work.

[igungor]

go install ... doesn't work out of the box now but we plan to fix it with the next release, which I don't have ETA right now.

[igungor]

Relevant #556

[szeitlin]

fwiw this is still not working for me, it says "downloading" all these things, but it doesn't seem to actually install anywhere.

[szeitlin]

I had to do export PATH=${PATH}:go env GOPATH/bin to get s5md to show up as a command.

[seruman]

I had to do export PATH=${PATH}:go env GOPATH/bin to get s5md to show up as a command.

Hi @szeitlin,

This is because of your Go installation, not s5cmd. You can find information about this in the official Go installation documentation at https://go.dev/doc/install;

Linux:
Add /usr/local/go/bin to the PATH environment variable.
Mac:
The package should put the /usr/local/go/bin directory in your PATH environment variable.

As far as I know, if you install it on macOS using homebrew, it doesn't automatically add $GOPATH/bin to your PATH. At least, it didn't do so the last time I installed it.