protoc-gen-gogofaster command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

protoc-gen-gogofaster: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protoc-gen-gogofaster: command not found

Solutions to protoc-gen-gogofaster: command not found

How To Fix protoc-gen-gogofaster: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu protoc-gen-gogofaster is provided by gogoprotobuf package.

gogoprotobuf is:

An alternative protocol buffer support for the Go programming language, forked from golang-goprotobuf. It is backwards compatible with goprotobuf, but provides faster marshalling and unmarshalling and can generate extra helper code, tests and benchmarks.

This package provides utilities.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install gogoprotobuf

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install gogoprotobuf.

sudo apt -y install gogoprotobuf

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install gogoprotobuf

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix protoc-gen-gogofaster command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.