Ubuntu install instructions non-functional

[marcellonovak]

tried following instructions from ubuntu install instructions by the letter

• go get is out of date, go has updated to go install for all commands. Both go install github.com/golang/protobuf/proto@latest and go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest didn't work either.
• commands for installing the go protobuf don't work, had to go to https://grpc.io/docs/languages/go/quickstart/ instead.
• compilation of certifier library, starting from a clean ubuntu 20.04 slate, ends with the following (couldn't copy clipboard from hyper-v), this was from the make -f certifier.mak command.
  

[gapisback]

Discussed in monthly meeting. Work-instructions worked well for team from Univ of Missouri.

Seems like the build failure is happening due to missing UUID libs, which one could install separately. The problem may be that the docs are incomplete and do not specifically call-out installing this library.

(Requested MU rep, Pari Patel, to scan this issue and share their ux with us. Using existing docs, MU team was recently able to successfully install the repo, got builds & tests working.)

[SnehaChaursia]

Hey team,

I reviewed this issue and identified that the build failure is happening due to missing dependencies, specifically the uuid-dev package, which provides the UUID header files required for the build.

Additionally, the Go installation commands in the current documentation are outdated (go get is deprecated), and the correct way to install the Go protobuf plugins is using the updated go install command.

For example, here’s the working set of commands:

# Install Go protobuf plugins
go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest

# Add Go bin to PATH
export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin

Also, to fix the build issue, we need to ensure the uuid-dev package is installed:

sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

I would like to work on updating the documentation to include these fixes and help others avoid the same issues. Please assign this issue to me @jlmucb .

Thanks!