Can't install golang using a workflow

[Forjaser]

Describe the problem/error/question

Probably I don’t have enough experience with n8n yet, but I think my use case is kind of simple. I just want to install Golang in my n8n host machine from a workflow to run some Golang cli tools in my workflows (which will also be installed from a workflow). I’ve tried many different things:

1. Trying apt/snap → They don’t exist
2. wget the tar.gz file, but I can’t extract it (neither with the extract node nor with “tar” command)

Please share your workflow

I just keep getting that memory is not enough when reading the file from disk (with read file node) but I just run “docker stats” and this is not true.

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.31.2
• Database (default: SQLite): default
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): Not sure about this.
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker in digital ocean
• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04

[barn4k]

hello @Forjaser

Why are you trying to install GO with n8n?

Better to use the docker capabilities for that - Dockerfile reference | Docker Docs

[Forjaser]

Hmm maybe that could work, although I’m using docker compose (no complain, just need to try). I’ll let you know if this works with my full use case

[barn4k]

you can let docker execute commands via the docker compose file

services:
 server:
   image: alpine
   command: ["sh","-c","sleep 15 && curl -u rob:123456 -X PUT couchserver:5984/_users &&  curl -u rob:123456 -X PUT couchserver:5984/test"]