1 Getting Zabbix

Overview

There are four ways of getting Zabbix:

• Install it from the distribution packages

• Download the latest source archive and compile it yourself

• Install it from the containers

• Download the virtual appliance

To download the latest distribution packages, pre-compiled sources or the virtual appliance, go to the Zabbix download page, where direct links to latest versions are provided.

Getting Zabbix source code

There are several ways of getting Zabbix source code:

• You can download the released stable versions from the official Zabbix website

• You can download nightly builds from the official Zabbix website developer page

• You can get the latest development version from the Git source code repository system:

  • The primary location of the full repository is at https://git.zabbix.com/scm/zbx/zabbix.git

  • Master and supported releases are also mirrored to Github at https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix

A Git client must be installed to clone the repository. The official commandline Git client package is commonly called git in distributions. To install, for example, on Debian/Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

To grab all Zabbix source, change to the directory you want to place the code in and execute:

git clone https://git.zabbix.com/scm/zbx/zabbix.git