Help! (go get) fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

[RickyS]

The normal command 'go get' never seems to work for me. The rest of the go commands work fine.  A typical example:

% go get -u github.com/nsf/gocode                       

# cd .; git clone https://github.com/nsf/gocode /home/ricky/Projects/Go/test1/src/github.com/nsf/gocode

Cloning into '/home/ricky/Projects/Go/test1/src/github.com/nsf/gocode'...

fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

package github.com/nsf/gocode: exit status 128

% echo $GOPATH                                                                                                            1 

/home/ricky/Projects/Go/test1

% echo $GOROOT

/usr/local/go

% uname -a

Linux ricky-Dell-System-Inspiron-N4110 3.8.0-25-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:47:07 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

%go version

go version go1.1.1 linux/amd64

   Any hints at all would be appreciated,

   RickyS

[Aaron France]

Eek, didn't read ignore. ABORT ABORT.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Aaron France <aaron.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Remove the https:// section, you don't need it.

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[Aaron France]

Hi,

Remove the https:// section, you don't need it.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:07 PM, RickyS <rickys...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Peter Bourgon]

This is a problem with your 'git' command, not with your 'go' command.

Can you 'git clone https://github.com/nsf/gocode'?
What about 'git clone g...@github.com:nsf/gocode'?

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:07 PM, RickyS <rickys...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Dominik Honnef]

RickyS <rickys...@gmail.com> writes:

> The normal command 'go get' never seems to work for me. The rest of the go
> commands work fine. A typical example:
>

> *% go get -u github.com/nsf/gocode*

> # cd .; git clone https://github.com/nsf/gocode
> /home/ricky/Projects/Go/test1/src/github.com/nsf/gocode
> Cloning into '/home/ricky/Projects/Go/test1/src/github.com/nsf/gocode'...

> *fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'*

> package github.com/nsf/gocode: exit status 128

That's a git error. Possible solution can be found at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329485/git-clone-fatal-unable-to-find-remote-helper-for-https

[RickyS]

[RickyS]

I removed and re-installed git with the Ubuntu Software Center (5.6.0) and there was no change.  Git version is '1.8.2.GIT'

[RickyS]

Interested to find it's all about git.  Thanks for the info.  Here's the results of my attempts:

 [ricky:~]% git clone https://github.com/nsf/gocode

Cloning into 'gocode'...

fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

 [ricky:~]% git clone g...@github.com:nsf/gocode                                                     

Cloning into 'gocode'...

Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

 [ricky:~]% git version                                                                                                     

git version 1.8.2.GIT

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[capnm]

On Friday, 28 June 2013 08:01:14 UTC+2, RickyS wrote:

 [ricky:~]% git clone g...@github.com:nsf/gocode                                                     

Cloning into 'gocode'...

Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

That is for private access with a ssh private key. Try:

git clone git://github.com/nsf/gocode

Martin

[RickyS]

Much better results.  Thanks.

I ran 'go install' and now have a $GOPATH/bin/gocode that runs and passes all but 2 tests.

[darsha...@gmail.com]

Hi Ricky,

How did you solve this issue? I am facing exactly same problem.

TIA.

D.

[Darshan Mehta]

Hi Ricky,

How did you solve this issue? I am facing exactly same problem.

TIA.

D.

[RickyS]

It was a while ago, and I remember I did a lot of things.  For some ideas, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329485/git-clone-fatal-unable-to-find-remote-helper-for-https

I remember that installing curl-devel finally did the trick.  Then I removed and reinstalled the latest version of git from sources.  I just now tried the "git clone g...@github.com:nsf/gocode" version of the command and it all worked.  And 'go get' has worked well for months.

I'm now running git version 1.8.4.3 under Ubuntu 13.10, 64-bit, with the new go 1.2.  This combination works very well for me.  I installed the latest git by compiling from sources, which I recommend.