Go Get OAuth2 Giving Me Weird Errors on Linux Mint - linux

Question

Attempting to follow along with https://jacobmartins.com/2016/02/29/getting-started-with-oauth2-in-go/
When I run go get golang.org/x/oauth2 nothing weird comes up, but when attempting to run the code using go run main.go
I get the following in my terminal:
# google.golang.org/grpc/credentials
../../../google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/credentials_util_pre_go17.go:58:32: error: reference to undefined field or method ‘GetCertificate’
GetCertificate: cfg.GetCertificate,
^
../../../google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/credentials_util_pre_go17.go:69:32: error: reference to undefined field or method ‘ClientSessionCache’
ClientSessionCache: cfg.ClientSessionCache,
^
../../../google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/credentials_util_pre_go17.go:72:32: error: reference to undefined field or method ‘CurvePreferences’
CurvePreferences: cfg.CurvePreferences,
^
../../../google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/credentials_util_pre_go17.go:58:3: error: unknown field ‘GetCertificate’ in ‘tls.Config’
GetCertificate: cfg.GetCertificate,
^
# golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack
../../../golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack/huffman.go:14:20: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘sync.Pool’
var bufPool = sync.Pool{
^
../../../golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack/huffman.go:14:24: error: expected ‘;’ or newline after top level declaration
var bufPool = sync.Pool{
^
# golang.org/x/net/context/ctxhttp
../../../golang.org/x/net/context/ctxhttp/ctxhttp_pre17.go:36:5: error: reference to undefined field or method ‘Cancel’
req.Cancel = cancel
^
# golang.org/x/oauth2/jws
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:75:17: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(b), nil
^
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:93:16: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(b), nil
^
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:113:16: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(b), nil
^
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:124:25: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
decoded, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(s[1])
^
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:151:41: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
return fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s", ss, base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(sig)), nil
^
../../../golang.org/x/oauth2/jws/jws.go:174:33: error: reference to undefined identifier ‘base64.RawURLEncoding’
signatureString, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(parts[2])
Go version is go version xgcc (Ubuntu 4.9.3-0ubuntu4) 4.9.3 linux/amd64
Running Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Looks like you are using go cgo installation. On Linux mint golang-go seems to be the distribution name.
But I would suggest installing the latest version of go (or version go 1.5 atleast) as mentioned in the below link and try again.
https://golang.org/doc/install
Remove your current installation before proceeding with the golang-go installation.