cannot find package "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/text"

[bbigras]

I'm trying to install using the instructions on https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus#building-from-source

$ env GOPATH=/opt/prometheus go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/...
package github.com/prometheus/prometheus/vendor/github.com/golang/snappy: code in directory /opt/prometheus/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/vendor/github.com/golang/snappy expects import "github.com/golang/snappy"
package github.com/prometheus/prometheus/vendor/golang.org/x/net/context: code in directory /opt/prometheus/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/vendor/golang.org/x/net/context expects import "golang.org/x/net/context"
package github.com/prometheus/prometheus/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus
        imports github.com/prometheus/client_golang/text: cannot find package "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/text" in any of:
        /usr/local/go/src/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/text (from $GOROOT)
        /opt/prometheus/src/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/text (from $GOPATH)

go version go1.5.1 linux/386

[juliusv]

@brunoqc Thanks for reporting this! Indeed, we changed the way we do vendoring, which needs the GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 env var to be set. And it would also be better to change it to go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/... because that would not have tried to directly build the packages under ./vendor then, so the build would still have succeeded, albeit not using the vendored library versions.

I filed a PR for that: #1166

[bbigras]

It works with the new instructions. Thanks! 👍

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