# 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 [ "33ed36d80c7db0e501b68c4c0c3ceb02" = "$(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. [](<>)