# Installing BEATS on a AARCH Linux Machine

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-beats-on-a-aarch-linux-machine/43511>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 4, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-beats-on-a-aarch-linux-machine/43511 "2016-03-04T13:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![techrawther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@techrawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techrawther)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-beats-on-a-aarch-linux-machine/43511/1 "2016-03-04T13:43:18Z")

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I downloaded the Linux 64 bit topbeats.zip file extracted and tried to execute on a linux aarch machine . The binaries is not supported.

-bash: ./topbeat: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

uname -a is Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 11 15:39:31 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

How can I install topbeats in this aarch64 machine

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-beats-on-a-aarch-linux-machine/43511/2 "2016-03-04T14:58:06Z")

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So you downloaded topbeat-1.1.1-x86\_64.tar.gz? That's for x86, not ARM64. You need to obtain a Go compiler for your machine (probably by building it yourself) and compile Topbeat.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-beats-on-a-aarch-linux-machine/43511/3 "2017-07-05T21:54:57Z")

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