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diff --git a/packaging/installer/methods/packages.md b/packaging/installer/methods/packages.md index 8f21f99668..d49e213941 100644 --- a/packaging/installer/methods/packages.md +++ b/packaging/installer/methods/packages.md @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ repositories at that top level: Within each top level group of repositories, there are directories for each supported group of distributions: -- `el`: Is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and binary compatible distros, such as CentOS, Alma Linux, and Rocky Linux. +- `amazonlinux`: Is for Amazon Linux and binary compatible distros. +- `el`: Is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and binary compatible distros that are not covered by other repos, such + as CentOS, Alma Linux, and Rocky Linux. - `fedora`: Is for Fedora and binary compatible distros. - `ol`: Is for Oracle Linux and binary compatible distros. - `opensuse`: Is for openSUSE and binary compatible distros. @@ -64,6 +66,13 @@ appropriate repository configuration package from https://repo.netdata.cloud/rep directly on the target system using the system package manager. This will ensure any packages needed to use the repository are also installed, and will help enable a seamless transition if we ever need to change our infrastructure. +> ### Note +> +> On RHEL and other systems that use the `el` repostiroies, some of the dependencies for Netdata can only be found +> in the EPEL repository, which is not enabled or installed by default on most of these systems. This additional +> repository _should_ be pulled in automatically by our repository config packages, but if it is not you may need +> to manually install `epel-release` to be able to successfully install the Netdata packages. + ## Manual setup of DEB packages. Netdata’s official DEB repositories are hosted at https://repo.netdata.cloud/repos. We provide four groups of |