Not able to install K6 in Docker using node:18.14-slim base image

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Hi

I have been struggling to install K6 in Docker using node:18.14-slim as base image (node:18.14 doesn`t work either). Suggested commands found on Installation are not working.

I tried multiple other things like installing the .deb package (https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.43.1/k6-v0.43.1-linux-amd64.deb) but when doing the installing I am getting the ARM vs AMD conflict error.

Thanks

Mathieu
I had no problem when

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Hi @Mathieu, welcome to the forum!

It would’ve been nice if you reported what exactly did not work, so we can better help you :slight_smile:

Given that you get

ARM vs AMD conflict error.

I would expect you are running on arm and are running an arm variang of the node:18.14-slim container.

k6 is not publishing arm deb or rpm packages at this moment.

I would recommend using the provided binary that is build for arm64 dirrectly.

Hope this helps, and you can go give the issue an :+1: :wink:

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the other potential solution was to use an AMD64 variant of the NodeJS 18.14 image like node:18.14-alpine.

I have no idea what the performance impact of that is to be honest :person_shrugging:

In the issue there is a comment about that you can compile it yourself … but to be honest I see no point in doing that instead of just downloading the binary directly. But it is another option.

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Ok thanks for the help. For know it seems that running K6 directly on macbook was enough to obtain what we were looking for :sweat_smile: