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diff --git a/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md b/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md index b1f779162..7275ee524 100644 --- a/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md +++ b/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md @@ -31,6 +31,22 @@ Starting with netdata v1.33.0, you can use Netdata itself to determine the insta netdata -W buildinfo | grep -E 'Installation Type|Install type:' ``` +The following table contains all possible installation types: + +| Installation-type | Description | +|--------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| +| binpkg-rpm | RPM-based native packages shipped from Netdata's repos. | +| binpkg-deb | DEB-based native packages shipped from Netdata's repos. | +| kickstart-build | Build from source with the kickstart script's `--build-only` option. | +| kickstart-static | Installed the static builds, shipped from netdata via the kickstart script's (option: `--static-only`). | +| manual-static-ARCH | Manually installed static Agent binaries by downloading archives from GitHub and installing them manually. Offline installations are part of this category. | +| legacy-build | Used for pre-existing kickstart.sh or netdata-installer.sh installations. This exist because we cannot determine how the install originally happened. | +| legacy-static | Same as legacy-build, but for static installs. | +| oci | Installed using official Docker images from Netdata, though not necessarily running on Docker | +| custom | Anything not covered by the other identifiers, including manual builds, manually running netdata-installer.sh, and third-party packages (community). | +| Unknown | Same as custom. | + + If you are using an older version of Netdata, or the above command produces no output, you can run our one-line installation script in dry-run mode to attempt to determine what method to use to update by running the following command: @@ -71,6 +87,12 @@ find the updater script. On such installs, you can update Netdata using your distribution package manager. +### Updates on hosts without IPv4 connectivity + +The update process outlined above suffers from the same issues that installing on hosts without IPv4 +connectivity does, and requires similar workarounds. For more details check [the explanation in our install +documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/installer/README.md#installs-on-hosts-without-ipv4-connectivity). + ### If the kickstart script does not work If the above command fails, you can [reinstall |