NetData Installation or Upgrade – Permission Denied Temp Directory not Executable

Last Updated on May 16, 2021 EDT by Jordan

You might have run into the following issue at some point when trying to install or upgrade Netdata.

~> <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)
/dev/fd/63: line 167: /tmp/netdata-test.GTtLvJePOp: Permission denied

It’s usually related to your /tmp folder is mounted without execution permission and doesn’t allow execution of programs from this location. A simple work around is to set the $TMPDIR location in your shell to a place that is mount with execution permission. As an example

~> env TMPDIR=/root/tmp /usr/libexec/netdata/netdata-updater.sh

Granted you don’t have to use /root/tmp it can be any location.

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