# Balena CLI on Linux ARM

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cli-on-linux-arm/366326>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cli-on-linux-arm/366326 "2023-01-04T11:47:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Thibaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Thibaut](https://forums.balena.io/u/Thibaut)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cli-on-linux-arm/366326/1 "2023-01-04T11:47:04Z")

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Hello,

I’m trying to integrate Balena in our CI using CircleCI. I don’t use `balena push` as I need to build every component docker image separately with `balena build` and push it in our registry (we don’t have a mono repo with all components).

In order to avoid `--emulated` I decided to use ARM machines on CircleCI, but it seems that there is no ARM version of the Balena CLI, which forces me to use the (slow) `--emulated`.

Is there a reason for this ?

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**Author:** ![pipex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/pipex/32/4840_2.png) [@pipex](https://forums.balena.io/u/pipex)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cli-on-linux-arm/366326/2 "2023-01-04T20:57:32Z")

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Hi there, we are looking into building the CLI for ARM builders, but we don’t really have an ETA of that feature yet as there are a few blockers we need to figure out yet. As a workaround, have you tried installing using the [npm install method](https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/blob/master/INSTALL-ADVANCED.md#install-the-balena-cli), while it will be a little bit slower, it should build all the necessary dependencies to make the CLI available on an ARM builder. Please let us know if that works for you

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**Author:** ![Thibaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Thibaut](https://forums.balena.io/u/Thibaut)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cli-on-linux-arm/366326/4 "2023-01-05T09:31:52Z")

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Thanks for your answer, in this case I’ll stick to `--emulated` as it will be slower to compile `balena-cli` than building in emulated mode 🙂