Update the manual install documentation with better info. (#8088)
* Use correct URI for install-required-packages.sh It got moved into the main repo a while back, but this part of the docs never got updated. * Add info about prep for manual install on CentOS 6.
Austin S. Hemmelgarn committed
Feb 21, 2020 at 11:35 UTC
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@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ should be installed on your system to build and run Netdata. It supports most ma
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Install the packages for having a **basic Netdata installation** (system monitoring and many applications, without `mysql` / `mariadb`, `postgres`, `named`, hardware sensors and `SNMP`):
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```sh
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-curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata-demo-site/master/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/install-required-packages.sh && bash /tmp/install-required-packages.sh -i netdata
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+curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/install-required-packages.sh && bash /tmp/install-required-packages.sh -i netdata
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```
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Install all the required packages for **monitoring everything Netdata can monitor**:
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```sh
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-curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata-demo-site/master/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/install-required-packages.sh && bash /tmp/install-required-packages.sh -i netdata-all
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+curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/install-required-packages.sh && bash /tmp/install-required-packages.sh -i netdata-all
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```
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If the above do not work for you, please [open a github
@@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ Netdata DB engine can be enabled when these are installed (they are optional):
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*Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.*
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+### CentOS / RHEL 6.x
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+On CentOS / RHEL 6.x, many of the dependencies for Netdata are only
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+available with versions older than what we need, so special setup is
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+required if manually installing packages.
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+CentOS 6.x:
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+- Enable the EPEL repo
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+- Enable the additional repo from [okay.network](https://okay.network/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html)
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+And install the minimum required dependencies.
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### CentOS / RHEL 8.x
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For CentOS / RHEL 8.x a lot of development packages have moved out into their