Stacker requires at least go 1.20.
On Ubuntu 22.04 you can install Go using the instructions at: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu
On Fedora 31 you can install Go with the following command:
sudo dnf install golang
If Go is not already packaged for your Linux distribution, you can get the latest Go version here: https://golang.org/dl/#stable
Go can be installed using the instructions on on the official Go website: https://golang.org/doc/install#install
The other build dependencies can be satisfied by running:
This script will install the current library and build-time depedencies.
Once installed it will prepare the system for build by fetching golang
tools, downloading go modules and preparing a mirror of remote OCI images.
sudo ./install-build-deps.sh
To run make check you will also need:
umoci - https://github.com/opencontainers/umoci
Since the path /usr/local is owned by root, when you reach the step to run make install, you need to run it as sudo.
make check requires the golangci-lint binary to be present in $GOPATH/bin
Since there are some tests that run with elevated privileges and use git, it will complain that the stacker folder is unsafe as it is owned by your user. To prevent that, we need to tell git to consider that folder as safe. To do this, open your git config file (.gitconfig) and add the following line with the path to your local stacker folder. Below is an example:
[safe]
directory = /home/chofnar/github/stacker
The other build dependencies can be satisfied with the following command and packages:
sudo dnf install lxc-devel libcap-devel libacl-devel gpgme-devel
sudo dnf install bats jq
Finally, once you have the build dependencies, stacker can be built with a
simple make stacker. The stacker binary will be output as ./stacker.