README.md is outdated rendering installation extremely arduous

[ThrosturX]

There are several issues with the installation steps in README.md:

• README.md delegates requirements to an external source, which has been changed -- there is no longer a dependencies section in libbeat's CONTRIBUTING.md file.
• running make install in the repository does not yield the correct results: make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

There are more problems with the Makefile:

• It references ../../elastic/beats/libbeat/scripts/Makefile(this is the correct path, when repositories are fully fetched with go get), but by default it assumes ./vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/scripts/Makefile (funny enough, there is a target requiring glide in the Makefile, but this requirement is not documented anywhere)
• Docker seems to be a dependency also, but this is not documented anywhere.

I've never had such problems building a binary from source...

[ThrosturX]

Here is a quick workaround to build the binary, until this is solved:

$ go get github.com/joshuar/pingbeat
$ cd $GOPATH/github.com/elastic/beats
$ git checkout 5.6
$ cd $GOPATH/github.com/joshuar/pingbeat
$ go build

At this point pingbeat binary exists at $GOPATH/github.com/joshuar/pingbeat and can be moved into a $PATH location.

[polishsputnik]

This workaround doesn't seem to like Go 1.8.... Getting "syntax error: unexpected = in type declaration"

[geokal]

go get github.com/joshuar/pingbeat
# github.com/joshuar/pingbeat/beater
../go/src/github.com/joshuar/pingbeat/beater/pingbeat.go:29:14: undefined: publisher.Client

On OSX Sierra do a go env see where your GOPATH is and cd into it and find pingbeat under src/github.com/ then do a brew install glide and then follow @ThrosturX instructions. Then you are good to go. Under /Users/yourHomeFolder/go/src/github.com/joshuar/pingbeat do a ./pingbeat -h to see the options. See also getting started guide https://github.com/joshuar/pingbeat/blob/master/docs/gettingstarted.asciidoc