# 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 [ "35e92cd3fd8a29621e23962ac5626dfc" = "$(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. [](<>)