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+title: "Install Netdata on Linux from a Git checkout"
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+
+# Install Netdata on Linux from a Git checkout
+
+To install the latest git version of Netdata, please follow these 2 steps:
+
+1. [Prepare your system](#prepare-your-system)
+
+ Install the required packages on your system.
+
+2. [Install Netdata](#install-netdata)
+
+ Download and install Netdata. You can also update it the same way.
+
+## Prepare your system
+
+Before you begin, make sure that your repo and the repo's submodules are clean from any previous builds and up to date.
+Otherwise, [perform a cleanup](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/installer/methods/manual.md#perform-a-cleanup-in-your-netdata-repo)
+
+Use our automatic requirements installer (_no need to be `root`_), which attempts to find the packages that
+should be installed on your system to build and run Netdata. It supports a large variety of major Linux distributions
+and other operating systems and is regularly tested. You can find this tool [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh) or run it directly with `bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh)`. Otherwise read on for how to get requires packages manually:
+
+- **Alpine** Linux and its derivatives
+ - You have to install `bash` yourself, before using the installer.
+
+- **Gentoo** Linux and its derivatives
+
+- **Debian** Linux and its derivatives (including **Ubuntu**, **Mint**)
+
+- **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** and its derivatives (including **Fedora**, **CentOS**, **Amazon Machine Image**)
+ - Please note that for RHEL/CentOS you need
+ [EPEL](http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/).
+ In addition, RHEL/CentOS version 6 also need
+ [OKay](https://okay.com.mx/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html) for package libuv version 1.
+ - CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 requires a bit of extra work. See the dedicated section below.
+
+- **SUSE** Linux and its derivatives (including **openSUSE**)
+
+- **SLE12** Must have your system registered with SUSE Customer Center or have the DVD. See
+ [#1162](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/1162)
+
+Install the packages for having a **basic Netdata installation** (system monitoring and many applications, without `mysql` / `mariadb`, `named`, hardware sensors and `SNMP`):
+
+```sh
+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
+```
+
+Install all the required packages for **monitoring everything Netdata can monitor**:
+
+```sh
+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
+```
+
+If the above do not work for you, please [open a github
+issue](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/new?title=packages%20installer%20failed&labels=installation%20help&body=The%20experimental%20packages%20installer%20failed.%0A%0AThis%20is%20what%20it%20says:%0A%0A%60%60%60txt%0A%0Aplease%20paste%20your%20screen%20here%0A%0A%60%60%60)
+with a copy of the message you get on screen. We are trying to make it work everywhere (this is also why the script
+[reports back](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/2054) success or failure for all its runs).
+
+---
+
+This is how to do it by hand:
+
+```sh
+# Debian / Ubuntu
+apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libuv1-dev liblz4-dev libssl-dev libelf-dev libmnl-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler gcc g++ make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkg-config curl python cmake
+
+# Fedora
+dnf install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libuv-devel lz4-devel openssl-devel elfutils-libelf-devel libmnl-devel protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler gcc gcc-c++ make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkgconfig curl findutils python cmake
+
+# CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
+yum install autoconf automake curl gcc gcc-c++ git libmnl-devel libuuid-devel openssl-devel libuv-devel lz4-devel elfutils-libelf-devel protobuf protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler make nc pkgconfig python zlib-devel cmake
+
+# openSUSE
+zypper install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libuv-devel liblz4-devel libopenssl-devel libelf-devel libmnl-devel protobuf-devel gcc gcc-c++ make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkgconfig curl findutils python cmake
+```
+
+Once Netdata is compiled, to run it the following packages are required (already installed using the above commands):
+
+| package | description|
+|:-----:|-----------|
+| `libuuid` | part of `util-linux` for GUIDs management|
+| `zlib` | gzip compression for the internal Netdata web server|
+| `libuv` | Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O, version 1 or greater|
+
+*Netdata will fail to start without the above.*
+
+Netdata plugins and various aspects of Netdata can be enabled or benefit when these are installed (they are optional):
+
+| package |description|
+|:-----:|-----------|
+| `bash`|for shell plugins and **alert notifications**|
+| `curl`|for shell plugins and **alert notifications**|
+| `iproute` or `iproute2`|for monitoring **Linux traffic QoS**<br/>use `iproute2` if `iproute` reports as not available or obsolete|
+| `python`|for most of the external plugins|
+| `python-yaml`|used for monitoring **beanstalkd**|
+| `python-beanstalkc`|used for monitoring **beanstalkd**|
+| `python-mysqldb`<br/>or<br/>`python-pymysql`|used for monitoring **mysql** or **mariadb** databases<br/>`python-mysqldb` is a lot faster and thus preferred|
+| `nodejs`|used for `node.js` plugins for monitoring **named** and **SNMP** devices|
+| `lm-sensors`|for monitoring **hardware sensors**|
+| `libelf`|for monitoring kernel-level metrics using eBPF|
+| `libmnl`|for collecting netfilter metrics|
+| `netcat`|for shell plugins to collect metrics from remote systems|
+
+*Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.*
+
+Netdata DB engine can be enabled when these are installed (they are optional):
+
+| package | description|
+|:-----:|-----------|
+| `liblz4` | Extremely fast compression algorithm, version r129 or greater|
+| `openssl`| Cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit|
+
+*Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.*
+
+Netdata Cloud support may require the following packages to be installed:
+
+| package | description |
+|:---------:|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `cmake` | Needed at build time if you aren't using your distribution's version of libwebsockets or are building on a platform other than Linux |
+| `openssl` | Needed to secure communications with the Netdata Cloud |
+| `protobuf`| Used for the new Cloud<->Agent binary protocol |
+
+*Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.*
+
+### CentOS / RHEL 6.x
+
+On CentOS / RHEL 6.x, many of the dependencies for Netdata are only
+available with versions older than what we need, so special setup is
+required if manually installing packages.
+
+CentOS 6.x:
+
+- Enable the EPEL repo
+- Enable the additional repo from [okay.network](https://okay.network/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html)
+
+And install the minimum required dependencies.
+
+### CentOS / RHEL 8.x
+
+For CentOS / RHEL 8.x a lot of development packages have moved out into their
+own separate repositories. Some other dependencies are either missing completely
+or have to be sourced by 3rd-parties.
+
+CentOS 8.x:
+
+- Enable the PowerTools repo
+- Enable the EPEL repo
+- Enable the Extra repo from [OKAY](https://okay.network/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html)
+
+And install the minimum required dependencies:
+
+```sh
+# Enable config-manager
+yum install -y 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
+
+# Enable PowerTools
+yum config-manager --set-enabled powertools
+
+# Enable EPEL
+yum install -y epel-release
+
+# Install Repo for libuv-devl (NEW)
+yum install -y http://repo.okay.com.mx/centos/8/x86_64/release/okay-release-1-3.el8.noarch.rpm
+
+# Install Devel Packages
+yum install autoconf automake curl gcc git cmake libuuid-devel openssl-devel libuv-devel lz4-devel make nc pkgconfig python3 zlib-devel
+
+```
+
+## Install Netdata
+
+Do this to install and run Netdata:
+
+```sh
+# download it - the directory 'netdata' will be created
+git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata.git --depth=100 --recursive
+cd netdata
+
+# run script with root privileges to build, install, start Netdata
+./netdata-installer.sh
+```
+
+- If you don't want to run it straight-away, add `--dont-start-it` option.
+
+- You can also append `--stable-channel` to fetch and install only the official releases from GitHub, instead of the nightly builds.
+
+- If you don't want to install it on the default directories, you can run the installer like this: `./netdata-installer.sh --install-prefix /opt`. This one will install Netdata in `/opt/netdata`.
+
+- If your server does not have access to the internet and you have manually put the installation directory on your server, you will need to pass the option `--disable-go` to the installer. The option will prevent the installer from attempting to download and install `go.d.plugin`.
+
+## Optional parameters to alter your installation
+
+`netdata-installer.sh` accepts a few parameters to customize your installation:
+
+- `--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](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/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](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/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.
+
+### Connect node to Netdata Cloud during installation
+
+Unlike the [`kickstart.sh`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/installer/methods/kickstart.md), the `netdata-installer.sh` script does
+not allow you to automatically [connect](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/claim/README.md) your node to Netdata Cloud immediately after installation.
+
+See the [connect to cloud](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/claim/README.md) doc for details on connecting a node with a manual installation of Netdata.
+
+### 'nonrepresentable section on output' errors
+
+Our current build process unfortunately has some issues when using certain configurations of the `clang` C compiler on Linux.
+
+If the installation fails with errors like `/bin/ld: externaldeps/libwebsockets/libwebsockets.a(context.c.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against '.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC`, and you are trying to build with `clang` on Linux, you will need to build Netdata using GCC to get a fully functional install.
+
+In most cases, you can do this by running `CC=gcc ./netdata-installer.sh`.
+
+
+### Perform a cleanup in your netdata repo
+
+The Netdata repo consist of the main git tree and it's submodules. Either working on a fork or on the main repo you need to make sure that there
+are no "leftover" artifacts from previous builds and that your submodules are up to date to the **corresponding checkouts**.
+
+> #### Important: Make sure that you have commited any work in progress, before you proceed the with the clean up instruction below
+
+
+```sh
+git clean -dfx && git submodule foreach 'git clean -dfx' && git submodule update --recursive --init
+```
+
+
+> Note: In previous builds, you may have created artifacts belonging to an another user (e.g root), so you may need to run
+> each of the _git clean_ commands as sudoer.