Installation fails for Windows WSL Ubuntu 18.04

[ashleve]

Describe the bug
Installation fails for Windows WSL Ubuntu 18.04.

To Reproduce
What I did:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install golang-go
go get -u github.com/justjanne/powerline-go

Error I get on go get -u github.com/justjanne/powerline-go:

# golang.org/x/term
/home/ukasz/go/src/golang.org/x/term/term_unix_linux.go:9:26: ioctlReadTermios redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /home/ukasz/go/src/golang.org/x/term/term_unix_aix.go:9:26
/home/ukasz/go/src/golang.org/x/term/term_unix_linux.go:10:27: ioctlWriteTermios redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at /home/ukasz/go/src/golang.org/x/term/term_unix_aix.go:10:27

Environment:

• Linux subsystem for Windows with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Shell: bash

[justjanne]

This looks like golang.org/x/term is broken on WSL Ubuntu 18.04? If any other user has more information on this, I’d love to try to debug it, as this seems like a very weird issue.

[justjanne]

@hobogalaxy Your version of golang-go is too old. Please follow the official guide from the golang creators here https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu on how to install the correct version of golang:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-go