Error: failed to load modules: failed to download modules: binary with name "go": not found.

[hurrellit]

I am new to Hugo and Docsy and I am having the following error when attempting to build my website locally using the hugo or hugo server commands:

Error: failed to load modules: failed to download modules: binary with name "go": not found

My repo is stored on Gitlab.com and my website fully functions when built with Gitlab and published to Gitlab Pages, and the first time I tried to build it locally using hugo server it worked fine, but now both hugo and hugo server commands result in this error. I am using Hugo Modules (basically I have cloned the Docsy example site and tweaked it for my use).

My local server is Ubuntu 22.04 and I have the following:

• Hugo extended version installed via dpkg v 0.119.0
• Git 2.34.1 via apt
• Go 1.21.3 downloaded directly and installed to /usr/local/go, with /usr/local/go/bin on the PATH
• Node.js 18.18.2 via nvm

My hugo.toml file contains these lines:

[module]
  # uncomment line below for temporary local development of module
  # replacements = "github.com/google/docsy -> ../../docsy"
  [module.hugoVersion]
    extended = true
    min = "0.110.0"
  [[module.imports]]
    path = "github.com/google/docsy"
    disable = false
  [[module.imports]]
    path = "github.com/google/docsy/dependencies"
    disable = false

And I have go.mod and go.sum files.

Incidentally I have the same issue when trying to deploy via AWS Amplify: aws-amplify/amplify-hosting#884 (comment).

Does anyone have any suggestions about this error and how to fix it? I appreciate I might be doing something wrong herr and expecting it work....!

[hurrellit]

OK, so I apologise, but it seems that I had only set the PATH environment variable for go temporarily. Adding it to /etc/profile rebooting and trying again now works.

Rather embarrassed, but at least that also gives me a clue for Amplify. Sorry for the "noise"...