Debian Bullseye building distrobuilder fails

Distrobuilder
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I’ve just installed Incus on Bullseye, all up and running. I’ve then attempted to build from the Github 3.0 release code on Debian but it’s failing for me.

  nick@host:~/distrobuilder-distrobuilder-3.0$ make
  gofmt -s -w .
  go install -v ./...
  go: downloading github.com/flosch/pongo2 v0.0.0-20200913210552-0d938eb266f3
  go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0
  go: downloading github.com/lxc/incus v0.0.0-20231030213510-385b6509cfce
  go: downloading github.com/spf13/cobra v1.7.0
  go: downloading github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3
  go: downloading github.com/mudler/docker-companion v0.4.6-0.20211015133729-bd4704fad372
  go: downloading github.com/google/go-github/v56 v56.0.0
  go: downloading gopkg.in/flosch/pongo2.v3 v3.0.0-20141028000813-5e81b817a0c4
  go: downloading github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
  go: downloading github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman v1.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.8
  go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.13.0
  go: downloading github.com/docker/docker v24.0.7+incompatible
  go: downloading github.com/opencontainers/umoci v0.4.8-0.20211009121349-9c76304c034d
  go: downloading github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.1.0-rc5
  go: downloading github.com/apex/log v1.9.0
  go: downloading github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.3
  go: downloading github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0
  go: downloading github.com/klauspost/pgzip v1.2.6
  go: downloading github.com/vbatts/go-mtree v0.5.3
  go: downloading github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
  go: downloading github.com/heroku/docker-registry-client v0.0.0-20211012143308-9463674c8930
  go: downloading github.com/zitadel/oidc/v2 v2.11.0
  go: downloading github.com/pkg/sftp v1.13.6
  go: downloading github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.5.0
  go: downloading github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin v0.2.4
  go: downloading github.com/containerd/continuity v0.4.3
  go: downloading google.golang.org/protobuf v1.31.0
  go: downloading gopkg.in/antchfx/htmlquery.v1 v1.2.2
  go: downloading github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.14
  go: downloading golang.org/x/crypto v0.14.0
  go: downloading github.com/google/uuid v1.4.0
  go: downloading github.com/containerd/log v0.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/docker/distribution v2.8.3+incompatible
  go: downloading golang.org/x/net v0.17.0
  go: downloading github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient v1.10.0
  go: downloading gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v2 v2.6.0
  go: downloading github.com/antchfx/xpath v1.2.5
  go: downloading github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20210331224755-41bb18bfe9da
  go: downloading github.com/klauspost/compress v1.17.2
  go: downloading golang.org/x/text v0.13.0
  go: downloading github.com/google/go-querystring v1.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/distribution/reference v0.5.0
  go: downloading github.com/gorilla/schema v1.2.0
  go: downloading github.com/moby/patternmatcher v0.6.0
  go: downloading github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man v1.0.10
  go: downloading github.com/moby/sys/sequential v0.5.0
  go: downloading golang.org/x/sync v0.4.0
  go: downloading golang.org/x/term v0.13.0
  go: downloading github.com/docker/libtrust v0.0.0-20160708172513-aabc10ec26b7
  go: downloading github.com/docker/go-units v0.5.0
  go: downloading github.com/kr/fs v0.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.3
  go: downloading golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.13.0
  go: downloading github.com/moby/term v0.5.0
  go: downloading github.com/rootless-containers/proto v0.1.1
  go: downloading github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.9
  go: downloading github.com/morikuni/aec v1.0.0
  go: downloading github.com/rootless-containers/proto/go-proto v0.0.0-20230421021042-4cd87ebadd67
  go: downloading google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.8
  go: downloading github.com/russross/blackfriday v1.6.0
  go: downloading github.com/docker/go-connections v0.4.0
  go: downloading github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0
  go: downloading github.com/gorilla/securecookie v1.1.1
  go: downloading github.com/muhlemmer/gu v0.3.1
  go: downloading github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2
  ../go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.14.0/curve25519/curve25519_go120.go:9:8: package crypto/ecdh is not in GOROOT (/usr/lib/go-1.15/src/crypto/ecdh)
  distrobuilder/main.go:59:2: package embed is not in GOROOT (/usr/lib/go-1.15/src/embed)
  make: *** [Makefile:9: default] Error 1
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I got various issues as I compiled in Ubuntu. It went away by using latest go (not as apt or deb) and defined GOROOT manually, here the steps:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y build-essential debootstrap rsync gpg squashfs-tools git
wget  https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf go1.20.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local
export GOPATH=/usr/local/go/bin
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

check the version (1.20.2):
go version

git clone https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder
cd distrobuilder
make
mv /usr/local/go/bin/bin/distrobuilder /usr/local/bin/
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Thanks! It was the go version, mine was

go version go1.15.15 linux/amd64

I’ve found distrobuilder a necessity as I need to build the occasional i386 and armhf container now they’ve been removed from images: