Packer init failing

[Neil Camara]

Don't know why packer init is failing in my mac osx. It worked well on my Debian machine. I'm on version 1.8.6

This is what I am getting:

Failed getting the "github.com/hashicorp/amazon" plugin:
19 errors occurred:
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_netbsd_arm.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_openbsd_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_linux_386.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_windows_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_linux_arm.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_linux_arm64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_freebsd_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_freebsd_arm.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_netbsd_386.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_netbsd_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_freebsd_386.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_windows_386.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_solaris_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_openbsd_arm.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_linux_amd64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: d86025aef6050899388d1d3975dc730e4b359d4b02a81419932c0dae9ef0c37e
Got     : 358028e6fc0866c67b85ce712b48ca9cf2cc4b6b921e7be9f7e85481761625b9
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_darwin_arm64.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* ignoring invalid remote binary packer-plugin-amazon_v1.2.4_x5.0_openbsd_386.zip: wrong system, expected darwin_amd64
* could not install any compatible version of plugin "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"

This is the content of my hcl file. Do you see anything wrong?

packer {

required_plugins {

amazon = {

version = ">= 1.2.4"

source = "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"

}

}

}

locals {

timestamp = regex_replace(timestamp(), "[- TZ:]", "")

}

source "amazon-ebs" "nodejs" {

ami_name = "example-nodejs-app-${local.timestamp}"

source_ami_filter {

filters = {

name = "amzn2-ami-hvm-*-x86_64-gp2"

root-device-type = "ebs"

virtualization-type = "hvm"

}

most_recent = true

owners = ["amazon"]

}

instance_type = "t2.micro"

region = "us-east-1"

ssh_username = "ec2-user"

}

build {

sources = [

"source.amazon-ebs.nodejs"

]

provisioner "shell" {

script = "./setup-amzn2.sh"

}

provisioner "file" {

source = "/Users/admin/repos/exercises/packer/IaC/packer/NodeJS_On_EC2/node-hello"

destination = "/home/ec2-user/app"

}

provisioner "shell" {

script = "./setup-node-amzn2.sh"

}

post-processor "manifest" {

output = "manifest.json"

strip_path = true

}

}