Error when installing chaincode - failed to calculate dependencies: incomplete package - hyperledger-fabric

Question

I am try to installing Chaincode, follow the tutorial of hyperledger. But when I try to run the command
peer chaincode install -p chaincodedev/chaincode/sacc -n mycc -v 0
The terminal gives error message
Error: error getting chaincode deployment spec for mycc: error getting chaincode package bytes: failed to calculate dependencies: incomplete package: github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-go/shim
I see some other people got similar issue, but there is no answer yet. I am new to these stuffs, so any suggestions can be helpful.

Answer 1

I solved it today:
After loging into CLI contaier execute the following command (import the shim package). This will import the package into cli container where the chaincode will be compiled.
go get github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-go/shim
then execute
peer chaincode install -p chaincodedev/chaincode/sacc -n mycc -v 0
It will work cheers.

Answer 2

You don't say what version of Fabric and samples you are using, but this looks like a change that was made for Fabric 2.0 and described in the release notes "The shim package and dependencies for go chaincode are no longer included in
the chaincode build environment."
There is more detail in the associated Jira entry.

Answer 3

Try downloading the shim package to the GOPATH
go get github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-go/shim
This downloads the shim package to /src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-go/shim inside your GOPATH . Then provide the path to this shim package inside import in your chaincode.
It should be like below:
import (
"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-go/shim"
)

Answer 4

In my case the reason was incorrect path. CLI container work dir has already chaincodedev part of the path
cli:
...
working_dir: /opt/gopath/src/chaincodedev
You can do following to validate if this is true in your case
docker exec -it cli bash
pwd
You have to see /opt/gopath/src/chaincodedev.
So all I needed to do is just remove chaincodedev from command path
peer chaincode install -p chaincode/sacc -n mycc -v 0