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# Install Netdata with kickstart.sh
 
This page covers detailed instructions on using and configuring the automatic one-line installation script named
`kickstart.sh`.
This method is fully automatic on all Linux distributions. To install Netdata from source, 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.sh)
```
> See our [installation guide](../README.md) for details about [automatic updates](../README.md#automatic-updates) or
> [nightly vs. stable releases](../README.md#nightly-vs-stable-releases).
## What does `kickstart.sh` do?
The `kickstart.sh` script does the following after being downloaded and run using `bash`:
- Detects the Linux distribution and **installs the required system packages** for building Netdata. Unless you added
the `--dont-wait` option, it will ask for your permission first.
- Checks for an existing installation, and if found updates that instead of creating a new install.
- Downloads the latest Netdata source tree to `/usr/src/netdata.git`.
- Installs Netdata by running `./netdata-installer.sh` from the source tree, using any [optional
parameters](#optional-parameters-to-alter-your-installation) you have specified.
- Installs `netdata-updater.sh` to `cron.daily`, so your Netdata installation will be updated with new nightly
versions, unless you override that with an [optional parameter](#optional-parameters-to-alter-your-installation).
- Prints a message whether installation succeeded or failed for QA purposes.
## Optional parameters to alter your installation
The `kickstart.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 install is detected, reinstall instead of trying to update it. Note that this
cannot be used to change installation types.
- `--local-files`: Used for [offline installations](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.sh` script you will download using the one-line command above,
run the following:
```bash
[ "8df7a45b2abb336c84507b7c107bcba3" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.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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