diff --git a/get-v8-linux.sh b/get-v8-linux.sh
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-download_libs() {
-# On debian CI we want to test against system libv8
-if [ "$USER" = "salsaci" ]; then
-  return;
-fi
-
-# Gets the R target architecture in case of qemu-containers, e.g
-# https://hub.docker.com/r/i386/debian
-# Which reports uname -m: x86_64 (only i386 seems to have this issue)
-RARCH=$(${R_HOME}/bin/Rscript -e 'cat(R.Version()$arch)')
-case $RARCH in
-  x86_64 | arm64 | aarch64)
-    echo "Target architecture: $RARCH"
-    ;;
-  *)
-  echo "Unexpected architecture: $RARCH"
-  return;
-  ;;
-esac
-
-# RHDT compilers are using an older libc++
-# https://github.com/jeroen/V8/issues/137
-if test -f "/etc/redhat-release" && grep -Fq "release 7" "/etc/redhat-release"; then
-IS_CENTOS7=1
-fi
-
-IS_MUSL=$(ldd --version 2>&1 | grep musl)
-if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ "$IS_MUSL" ]; then
-  URL="https://github.com/jeroen/V8/releases/download/v3.6.0/v8-9.6.180.12-alpine.tar.gz"
-elif [ "$RARCH" = "arm64" ] || [ "$RARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then
-  URL="https://github.com/jeroen/V8/releases/download/v3.6.0/v8-9.6.180.12-arm64.tar.gz"
-else
-  IS_GCC4=$($CXX --version | grep -P '^g++.*[^\d.]4(\.\d){2}')
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ "$IS_GCC4" ]; then
-    URL="https://github.com/jeroen/V8/releases/download/v3.6.0/v8-6.8.275.32-gcc-4.8.tar.gz"
-  elif [ "$IS_CENTOS7" ]; then
-    URL="https://github.com/jeroen/V8/releases/download/v3.6.0/v8-6.8.275.32-gcc-4.8.tar.gz"
-  else
-    URL="https://github.com/jeroen/V8/releases/download/v3.6.0/v8-9.6.180.12-amd64.tar.gz"
-  fi
-fi
-if [ ! -f ".deps/lib/libv8_monolith.a" ]; then
-  ${R_HOME}/bin/R -q -e "curl::curl_download('$URL','libv8.tar.gz',quiet=FALSE)"
-  tar xzf libv8.tar.gz
-  rm -f libv8.tar.gz
-  mv v8 .deps
-fi
-PKG_CFLAGS="-I${PWD}/.deps/include"
-PKG_LIBS="-L${PWD}/.deps/lib -lv8_monolith"
-}
-
-download_libs
-