go-git command not found

Introduction

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

go-git: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: go-git: command not found

Solutions to go-git: command not found

How To Fix go-git: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu go-git is provided by go-git package.

go-git is:

go-git is a highly extensible git implementation library written in pure Go.

It can be used to manipulate git repositories at low level (plumbing) or high level (porcelain), through an idiomatic Go API. It also supports several types of storage, such as in-memory filesystems, or custom implementations, thanks to the Storer interface.

This package provides command line interface of this library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install go-git

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

You can also use apt command to install go-git.

sudo apt -y install go-git

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

sudo aptitude install go-git

Summary

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