# Help installing Influx

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-installing-influx/15423>\
**Category:** Welcome & Getting Started\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-installing-influx/15423 "2020-07-29T20:27:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-installing-influx/15423/2 "2020-07-30T10:55:21Z")

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You just starting out? If so, I’d suggest skipping 1.8 and going straight to influx 2.0. It’s still in beta, but from what I’ve seen progress is pretty good, new releases almost every 2 weeks.

What I did:  
Download latest arm beta  
Discovered it only came in 64 bit aarch  
Found that raspian had a native 64 bit kernel, but needed enabling. Did that , rebooted.  
Then made my own service config

> [@Trying to install InfluxDb 2.0 beta on Raspberry Pi 4b w/ 4Gb RAM](https://community.influxdata.com/t/trying-to-install-influxdb-2-0-beta-on-raspberry-pi-4b-w-4gb-ram/13153/9):
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> I’m in similar boat- experimenting with a pi4. I’ve literally only been running for past 2 hours, but it looks like it runs fine for me under latest raspbian, but you have to tell it to run the new beta Aarch64 kernel Backup everything first - just in case! Add arm\_64bit=1 to the very end of /boot/config.txt , then do the usual to update, sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade , then reboot. After it comes back up, run uname -a to confirm it now shows aarch64 Linux raspiM 4.19.118-v8+ #…

My systemd config for it

```auto

[Unit]
Description=InfluxDB 2.0 service file.
Documentation=https://v2.docs.influxdata.com/v2.0/get-started/
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=influxdb
Group=influxdb
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/influxd run \
		--reporting-disabled \
# --log-level debug \
		--engine-path "/mnt/Influx/.influxdbv2/engine" \
		--bolt-path "/mnt/Influx/.influxdbv2/influxd.bolt"
#Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

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