protoc-gen-go command not found

Introduction

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

protoc-gen-go: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protoc-gen-go: command not found

Solutions to protoc-gen-go: command not found

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

In Ubuntu protoc-gen-go is provided by golang-goprotobuf-dev package.

golang-goprotobuf-dev is:

Adds support for serializing and deserializing data in the protocol buffer format for users of the Go language. This will also install a protobuf compiler filter which will allow you to compile protocol buffers to Go code using protoc from the protobuf-compiler package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install golang-goprotobuf-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install golang-goprotobuf-dev.

sudo apt -y install golang-goprotobuf-dev

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

sudo aptitude install golang-goprotobuf-dev

Summary

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