1 Getting Zabbix

Overview

There are four ways of getting Zabbix:

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:

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:

  1. sudo apt-get update
  2. sudo apt-get install git

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

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