I can't "go get" a dependency from github

Question

I made a golang app on my machine that uses cron. On my machine, I

"go get github.com/robfig/cron"

to download and install dependency then in my app I

"import cron "github.com/rk/go-cron""

the app works fine and runs the way I want. I then upload it to the server where it's supposed to run and try to "go get github.com/robfig/cron" as I did on my machine, but then it gave me this

I downloaded and installed github but still the same result. I'm guessing the problem is with github on my server machine

I am new to golang and andy kind of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

What you need to install is git. It is the version control system (VCS) used by GitHub.
The native GitHub application does not provide the command line tools used by Go.

Git can be found and downloaded at http://git-scm.com/downloads

Once installed, make sure you have the path to the Git cmd folder in your %PATH% environment variable. You can check this by running the command: echo %PATH%

On a Windows installation, you might find it located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd