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| author | Tasos Katsoulas <12612986+tkatsoulas@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-09-13 15:49:06 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-09-13 15:49:06 +0300 |
| commit | db25063e9018078354e8063bc962f8596145071c (patch) | |
| tree | 385db7a05a83c8c32af5b5513c5238b663fab600 | |
| parent | c51e7aa7c2379eda50df93ae6375228693f3a963 (diff) | |
Clarifying the possible installation types (#15958)
Signed-off-by: Tasos Katsoulas <tasos@netdata.cloud>
Co-authored-by: Ilya Mashchenko <ilya@netdata.cloud>
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/installer/UPDATE.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md b/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md index f685ea3513..7275ee5244 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: |