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launcher: use normal image for arm64 installs #997

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Expand Up @@ -233,16 +233,13 @@ check_prereqs() {
echo "WARNING: Docker version ${test} deprecated, recommend upgrade to ${docker_rec_version} or newer."
fi

arm=false
case $(uname -m) in
armv7l)
echo "ERROR: 32bit arm is not supported. Check if your hardware support arm64, which is supported in experimental capacity."
exit 1
;;
aarch64 | arm64)
echo "WARNING: Support for aarch64 is experimental at the moment. Please report any problems at https://meta.discourse.org/tag/arm"
image="discourse/base:aarch64"
arm=true
echo "arm64 arch detected."
;;
x86_64)
echo "x86_64 arch detected."
Expand All @@ -257,8 +254,7 @@ check_prereqs() {
# 4. discourse docker image is downloaded
test=`$docker_path images | awk '{print $1 ":" $2 }' | grep "$image"`

# arm experimental support is on a fixed tag, always pull
if [ -z "$test" ] || [ $arm = true ]; then
if [ -z "$test" ]; then
echo
echo "WARNING: We are about to start downloading the Discourse base image"
echo "This process may take anywhere between a few minutes to an hour, depending on your network speed"
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