Download the protobuf binary by either: - `brew install protobuf` - Download from protobuf [github release](https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.1.0) and place in your $PATH run the following 4 commands listed here https://github.com/gogo/protobuf ```sh go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/jsonpb go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto ``` now, you can regenerate the `.proto` file: `protoc --gogo_out=. internal.proto`