To install InfluxDB, the official installation guide can be found here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.5/introduction/installation/.
Ubuntu is built from the Debian distribution. In this chapter, we use Ubuntu as the lab environment to run InfluxDB. Here is a link to install Ubuntu in a VirtualBox: https://askubuntu.com/questions/142549/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-virtualbox.
Once Ubuntu is installed in your VM, we will install InfluxDB in Ubuntu. We use the apt-get package manager to install InfluxDB. Enter the following five commands:
curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/InfluxDB.key | sudo apt-key add -
source /etc/lsb-release
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" ...
