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Installing InfluxDB

Installing InfluxDB is straightforward and it has no external dependencies; it also has packages for many operating systems. This recipe will show you how to install InfluxDB on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. The following steps are manual; however, you should consider automation using a tool such as Ansible (if you decide to use InfluxDB in production). You can find details of Ansible in Chapter 5, Automation with Ansible.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to download, install, and configure InfluxDB:

1. On your server, issue the following commands:

   $ wget http://influxdb.s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb_0.9.3_amd64.deb
   $ sudo dpkg -i influxdb_0.9.3_amd64.deb
   

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