Troubles installing Central on MacOS

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Hi
I'm trying to install ODK Central on MacOS Tahoe
The installations fails and I get this message:

postgres-upgrade.dockerfile:2

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   1 |     # see: https://github.com/tianon/docker-postgres-upgrade/blob/master/9.6-to-14/Dockerfile

   2 | >>> FROM tianon/postgres-upgrade:9.6-to-14

   3 |     

   4 |     # This file is required to encourage human validation of the process.

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target postgres: failed to solve: tianon/postgres-upgrade:9.6-to-14: failed to resolve source metadata for docker.io/tianon/postgres-upgrade:9.6-to-14: no match for platform in manifest: not found

I followed the steps in the documentation, and created the file describe in step 8:
touch ./files/allow-postgres14-upgrade
But still getting the error

How can I fix this?
Thanks

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Hey mate,

ODK is configured to use x86 docker images and you’re most likely on one of the newer arm based apple silicone chips. You might need to get an x86 machine if you want to self host or use a cloud VPS. Alternatively you could install the postgres Mac app and manually configure the database there but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Ben

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Note that, if you just want to test ODK on ARM MacOS, you can download a Linux ISO, run it using UTM (link), and emulate x64 architecture. It’s pretty slow though, and I wouldn’t recommend it for anything beyond playing around with ODK to try it out.