Installing InfluxDB on Linode Ubuntu

Question

I have a 32 bit Ubuntu on Linode, confirmed by:

~$ uname -m
i686

Following the install instructions I get:

~$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb_latest_i686.deb
...
Length: 16572810 (16M) [binary/octet-stream]
Saving to: `influxdb_latest_i686.deb'
100%[======================================>] 16,572,810  2.43M/s   in 7.3s
2015-03-31 15:59:28 (2.16 MB/s) - `influxdb_latest_i686.deb' saved       

~$ sudo dpkg -i influxdb_latest_i686.deb
dpkg: error processing influxdb_latest_i686.deb (--install):
package architecture (i686) does not match system (i386)
Errors were encountered while processing:
influxdb_latest_i686.deb

I tried the amd64 package as well, and got the same error.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

InfluxDB no longer provides i386 binaries, you would need to compile from sources. I managed to install 0.8 with dpkg -i --force-architecture influxdb_0.8.8_i686.deb but 0.9 won't work

From https://influxdata.com/downloads/

About 32-Bit Packages

The industry is gradually moving away from support for 32-bit x86 architectures so we do not provide packaged 32-bit binaries. However, we do endeavour to ensure the source can be compiled for a 32-bit x86 architecture at all times. To that end our CI system currently compiles 32-bit binaries and runs the unit test suite against the 32-bit build, in addition to the main 64-bit build. If compilation or unit testing for 32-bit architecture fails, we fix it.