Installation

Download mock

The easiest installation method is simply downloading mock’s executable file. It’s built as a standalone program with no dependencies, so just choose one of the supported OSs and start using it, or check the releases page where you’ll find other download formats available:

• Download mock for Linux

• Download mock for MacOS

• Releases

Or, here’s a few lines of shell for quickly installing it:

$ wget -O mock.tgz https://github.com/dhuan/mock/releases/download/v1.4.6/mock_v1.4.6_linux-386.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf mock.tgz
$ ./mock version

Install through source code

Before proceeding make sure that your system has the following programs installed:

• Golang 1.18 or more recent

• GNU Make

• Git

Clone mock’s source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/dhuan/mock

Move into the new folder where mock was cloned run the make command for building the program:

$ make build

If executed successfully, the mock executable file should’ve been created inside the bin folder from the root repository path.

$ ./bin/mock version