Source installation guide assumes x64

We had a Tweet from a user that pointed out we assume an x64 architecture when installing from source.

I think the only place we do this is while installing Golang. Maybe we could split that into two paths?

cc @jacobvosmaer

I think we only support x64 officially, don't we?

@JobV That could be, but I didn't see anything in the installation requirements.

Is the gitlab-git-http-server the only x64 bit?

It's just the Go packages that are x64. Been running on x86 since version 4.x ish with no issues. I am moving to a new x64 server though shortly, so this maybe a moot point for me at least. (I'm the tweeter btw!)

@olirogers I guess you can replace the golang package in 4th step with the i386 from here https://golang.org/dl/.

@JobV In my mind I always thought that only omnibus are x64 only.

As for the installation guide we have two options, either point the x86 users to download the golang compiler from the site or provide another block with the x86 package. I can do it if you want.

@axil I think we should just write 'if you have an i386 machine instead of amd64, please go to golang.org/dl to download Go binaries for your platform'.

I think having a copy-pasteable set of i386 instructions is not worth the documentation/maintenance effort.

@jacobvosmaer

@jacobvosmaer

Oh so I guess that means I have to write it now. :)

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