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| author | James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> | 2020-03-13 07:21:06 +1000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-13 07:21:06 +1000 |
| commit | 53d0634b025ed74411175e00ce6969bc41e0d70e (patch) | |
| tree | 1bea90aafbf4c54e54c1ce864dda59cbb56dcbab /packaging | |
| parent | a133543132c156feb4e56f126d05df43e1b46d99 (diff) | |
Update paragraph on install-required-packages (#8347)
* Update paragraph on install-required-packages
* Update packaging/installer/methods/manual.md
* Fix build error
Co-authored-by: Patti Short <35278231+shortpatti@users.noreply.github.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'packaging')
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/installer/methods/manual.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/installer/methods/manual.md b/packaging/installer/methods/manual.md index b8f6106fb0..6a8f67e915 100644 --- a/packaging/installer/methods/manual.md +++ b/packaging/installer/methods/manual.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ To install the latest git version of Netdata, please follow these 2 steps: ## Prepare your system -Try our experimental automatic requirements installer (no need to be root). This will try to find the packages that -should be installed on your system to build and run Netdata. It supports most major Linux distributions released after -2010: +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. |