Some consider go modules is kosher. Others use a custom dependency management tool for Golang. But if you use third-party libraries, you must obey the choice of the another developer regarding this (probably gophers love pain).
Dep is a dependency management tool for Go that requires Go 1.9 or newer to compile.
Since there's no appropriate version of Go for some Linux distributives, dep init does not write out a partial Gopkg.toml when it fails.
Removing functions ValidateProjectRoots and ValidateParams and rebuilding dep fixed the issue in my case (it is described here)
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alissiawells/dep/master/install.sh | shIt will install into your $GOPATH/bin directory by default or any other directory you specify using the INSTALL_DIRECTORY environment variable.
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