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# Install Netdata with kickstart-static64.sh
 
This page covers detailed instructions on using and configuring the installation script named `kickstart-static64.sh`.
This method uses a pre-compiled static binary to install Netdata on any Intel/AMD 64bit Linux system and on any Linux
distribution, even those with a broken or unsupported package manager.
To install Netdata from a static binary package, including all dependencies required to connect to Netdata Cloud, and
get _automatic nightly updates_, run the following as your normal user:
```bash
bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh)
```
> This script installs Netdata at `/opt/netdata`.
> See our [installation guide](/packaging/installer/README.md) for details about [automatic
> updates](/packaging/installer/README.md#automatic-updates) or [nightly vs. stable
> releases](/packaging/installer/README.md#nightly-vs-stable-releases).
## What does `kickstart-static64.sh` do?
The `kickstart.sh` script does the following after being downloaded and run:
- Checks to see if there is an existing installation, and if there is updates that in preference to reinstalling.
- Downloads the latest Netdata binary from the [binary-packages](https://github.com/netdata/binary-packages)
repository. You can also run any of these `.run` files with [makeself](https://github.com/megastep/makeself).
- Installs Netdata by running `./netdata-installer.sh` from the source tree, including any options you might have
added.
- Installs `netdata-updater.sh` to `cron.daily` to enable automatic updates, unless you added the `--no-updates`
option.
- Prints a message about whether the installation succeeded for failed for QA purposes.
If your shell fails to handle the above one-liner, you can download and run the `kickstart-static64.sh` script manually.
```sh
# download the script with curl
curl https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh >/tmp/kickstart-static64.sh
# or, download the script with wget
wget -O /tmp/kickstart-static64.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh
# run the downloaded script (any sh is fine, no need for bash)
sh /tmp/kickstart-static64.sh
```
## Optional parameters to alter your installation
The `kickstart-static64.sh` script passes all its parameters to `netdata-installer.sh`, which you can use to customize
your installation. Here are a few important parameters:
- `--dont-wait`: Enable automated installs by not prompting for permission to install any required packages.
- `--dont-start-it`: Prevent the installer from starting Netdata automatically.
- `--stable-channel`: Automatically update only on the release of new major versions.
- `--nightly-channel`: Automatically update on every new nightly build.
- `--disable-telemetry`: Opt-out of [anonymous statistics](/docs/anonymous-statistics.md) we use to make
Netdata better.
- `--no-updates`: Prevent automatic updates of any kind.
- `--reinstall`: If an existing installation is detected, reinstall instead of attempting to update it. Note
that this cannot be used to switch between installation types.
- `--local-files`: Used for [offline installations](/packaging/installer/methods/offline.md). Pass four file paths:
the Netdata tarball, the checksum file, the go.d plugin tarball, and the go.d plugin config tarball, to force
kickstart run the process using those files. This option conflicts with the `--stable-channel` option. If you set
this _and_ `--stable-channel`, Netdata will use the local files.
## Verify script integrity
To use `md5sum` to verify the integrity of the `kickstart-static64.sh` script you will download using the one-line
command above, run the following:
```bash
[ "047c86a7c8905955bee39b6980a28e30" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"
```
If the script is valid, this command will return `OK, VALID`.
## What's next?
When you're finished with installation, check out our [single-node](/docs/quickstart/single-node.md) or
[infrastructure](/docs/quickstart/infrastructure.md) monitoring quickstart guides based on your use case.
Or, skip straight to [configuring the Netdata Agent](/docs/configure/nodes.md).
Read through Netdata's [documentation](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs), which is structured based on actions and
solutions, to enable features like health monitoring, alarm notifications, long-term metrics storage, exporting to
external databases, and more.
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