Missing information when install fails

[DavidBurela]

Version information:

$ ipfs-update --version
ipfs-update version v1.9.0

Description:

• I have a fresh install of Ubuntu, and tried to get IPFS installed via ipfs-update.
• I followed the instructions on https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ipfs-updater/#install-ipfs-update
• When I try run ipfs-update install latest it responds with ERROR: install failed: could not find good install location

Searching for information brought me to this repo which says you need go later than 1.12.
So I used sudo apt install golang which installs go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64
But running ipfs-update still results in the same error.

Suggestion:

Instead of "could not find a good install location", feedback is needed on what is missing.
Is Go missing? is there a path missing? etc. What should be done to resolve this.

Command Output:

The error is the same with or without golang installed.

$ ipfs-update --version
ipfs-update version v1.9.0
$ go version
go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64
$ ipfs-update install latest --verbose
Error fetching: open /home/dave/.ipfs/api: no such file or directory
Fetching with HTTP: "https://ipfs.io/ipns/dist.ipfs.tech/go-ipfs/versions"
fetching go-ipfs version v0.17.0
Error fetching: open /home/dave/.ipfs/api: no such file or directory
Fetching with HTTP: "https://ipfs.io/ipns/dist.ipfs.tech/go-ipfs/v0.17.0/go-ipfs_v0.17.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz"
binary downloaded, verifying...
success! tests all passed.
checking user install locations
install failed, reverting changes...
ERROR: install failed: could not find good install location

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[DavidBurela]

I found the cause of the issue. This will cause it to install fine sudo ipfs-update --version

There error message needs to be clearer that it failed due to a lack of using sudo