cannot find package "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum"

Question

I was following this youtube video in order to install Ethereum client on Ubuntu 15.10

First I installed Go language environment. Then I have build QT following this wiki

After that I tried to download and install Ethereum CLI client with

go get -u github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum

But, I get the following error

github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (download)
package github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum: cannot find package "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum" in any of:
    /usr/local/go/src/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum (from $GOROOT)
    /home/cooldudeabhi/work/src/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum (from $GOPATH)

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Error spotted

There is a typo in your command. Try:

go get -u github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/

Remove the last ethereum.

Install from repository

You can also use the official ethereum ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

After installing, run geth account new to create an account on your node.

Build from source

If everything else does not work try manually cloning and building:

• Deps:

  sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libgmp3-dev golang
  

• Build:

  git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
  

  cd go-ethereum make geth

You can now run ./build/bin/geth to start your node.

Answer 2

The video you linked to is quite old, almost 2 years ago (2014).

According to https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Installation-Instructions-for-Ubuntu here are the steps for Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-dev (skip this if you only want the last stable version)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

(For other platforms, see this.)

Answer 3

****Go through these simple steps****

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ethereum