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 To enable remote support in Viper, do a blank import of the `viper/remote`
 package:
 
-`import _ github.com/spf13/viper/remote`
+`import _ "github.com/spf13/viper/remote"`
 
 Viper will read a config string (as JSON, TOML, or YAML) retrieved from a path
 in a Key/Value store such as Etcd or Consul.  These values take precedence over