gettingstarted.html

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title: Ganeti - Getting Started
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        <h1>Getting Started</h1>
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        <p>
            This page will show you how install Ganeti on various Linux distributions. Further information about dependencies
            and cluster initialisation can be found in <a href="https://docs.ganeti.org/docs/ganeti/3.0/html/install.html">this Guide</a>.
        <p>
        <h3>Debian</h3>
        <p>
            Debian provides packages out of the box. More recent packages can usually be found through
            <a href="https://backports.debian.org/">Debian Backports</a>.
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        <h3>Ubuntu</h3>
        <p>
            Please use <a href="https://launchpad.net/~pkg-ganeti-devel/+archive/ubuntu/lts">this PPA</a> if you would like to run Ganeti on Ubuntu.
        </p>

        <h3>RedHat/CentOS</h3>
        <p>
            For Redhat/CentOS based systems, please head over to <a href="https://jfut.integ.jp/linux/ganeti/">this repository</a>.
        </p>

        <h3>Other Distributions / Source builds</h3>
        <p>
            You can also build Ganeti directly from source - please read <a href="https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti/blob/master/INSTALL">these instructions</a> carefully.
        </p>

        <h3>Nightly/Developer builds</h3>
        <p>
        We provide nightly packages for Debian and Ubuntu off the project's master branch via <a href="https://deb.ganeti.dev">this repository</a>.<br>
        <b>These packages are only for testing purposes, do not use them in production! There is no upgrade path between nightly builds!</b>
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