# Need help with installing influxDB Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Systems\ **Tags:** influxdb\ **Created:** [October 5, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/need-help-with-installing-influxdb-ubuntu/6918 "2018-10-05T18:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Reehl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Justin\_Reehl](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Justin_Reehl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/need-help-with-installing-influxdb-ubuntu/6918/1 "2018-10-05T18:21:42Z")
I am attempting to install influxDB on ubuntu, but i am a NOOB when it comes to both of these platforms. I attempted to follow the instructions… Unfortunately i get a pile bunch of errors: XXX@Ubuntu-VM:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb Hit:1 link removed bionic InRelease Hit:2 link removed bionic InRelease Get:3 link removed bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Get:4 link removed bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB] Get:5 link removed bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Fetched 247 kB in 1s (229 kB/s) Reading package lists… Done Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following NEW packages will be installed: influxdb 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/24.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 81.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database … 149977 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/influxdb\_1.6.3-1\_amd64.deb … Unpacking influxdb (1.6.3-1) … **dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/influxdb\_1.6.3-1\_amd64.deb (–unpack):** \*\* trying to overwrite ‘/usr/bin/influx’, which is also in package influxdb-client 1.1.1+dfsg1-4\*\* **dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)** influxdb.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable influxdb **Errors were encountered while processing:** \*\* /var/cache/apt/archives/influxdb\_1.6.3-1\_amd64.deb\*\* **E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)** i have tried a few times to get this to work… but i am at a loss. Can anyone help me get started in the right direction? edit, i had to remove the links since this is my first post… ---
**Author:** ![katy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/katy/32/855_2.png) [@katy](https://community.influxdata.com/u/katy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/need-help-with-installing-influxdb-ubuntu/6918/2 "2018-10-05T23:00:05Z")
I think this error is signaling that you have conflicting packages in the system. You can try to write over the package or remove the package and re-install it. Check out [this post](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1026739/dpkg-error-processing-archive-var-cache-apt-archives-cuda-cublas-9-1-9-1-85-3) on Ubuntu for some instructions for overriding and removing the package.