# Influxdb install error **URL:** \ **Category:** InfluxDB 3\ **Created:** [August 4, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-install-error/57746 "2025-08-04T06:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![emc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@emc](https://community.influxdata.com/u/emc)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-install-error/57746/1 "2025-08-04T06:07:01Z")
I followed the quick install guide and ran: ```auto curl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh \ && sh install_influxdb3.sh ``` After continuing with the prompts I tell it to do a file based storage and leave the storage path as default. It returns with “ERROR: InfluxdB failed to start; check permissions or other potential issues”. I have confirmed the user i am installing with “influxdb” has permissions for the data directory. What else can I try? screenshot shows the error during install and an ls-la of the /inbfluxdb directory showing influxdb is the owner and has permissions for read/write ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/3X/6/9/692608075ed84057f52a2209c1af637a28325048.png) ---
**Author:** ![suyash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/suyash/32/15791_2.png) [@suyash](https://community.influxdata.com/u/suyash)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-install-error/57746/2 "2025-08-05T09:06:14Z")
This is odd, can you copy and paste that command - basically manually run influxdb3 serve (may have to provide the location of that binary if it’s not added in your system path) ? Just change the data directory and see if that works ? Example: ```auto influxdb3 serve \ --verbose \ --object-store file \ --data-dir ~/.influxdb3 \ --node-id node1 ```