NetData Installation or Upgrade – Permission Denied Temp Directory not Executable

Last Updated on May 16, 2021 GMT-0800 by Jordan

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

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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

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


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