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To build and install Consul Template locally, you will need a modern Go (Go 1.5+) environment.

First, clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-template.git 

Next, download/update all the dependencies:

$ make updatedeps

To compile the consul-template binary and run the test suite:

$ make dev

This will compile the consul-template binary into bin/consul-template as well as your $GOPATH and run the test suite.

If you just want to run the tests:

$ make test

Or to run a specific test in the suite:

go test ./... -run SomeTestFunction_name

Submit Pull Requests and Issues to the Consul Template project on GitHub.