# eBPF on RHEL7.9 rpm install

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent\
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114 "2021-03-26T10:25:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![pdgaaa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/pdgaaa/32/433_2.png) [@pdgaaa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pdgaaa)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/1 "2021-03-26T10:25:40Z")

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Hi,

Someone could confirm me that I need to install netdata from source to have eBPF plugin working ?

On my install by rpm from packagecloud, I added ebpf = yes under plugins section but I don’t see anything about eBPF after restarting netdata.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/thiago_marques_0/32/281_2.png) [@Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Thiago_Marques_0)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/2 "2021-03-26T13:19:02Z")

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Hello @pdgaaa ,

I am not sure about the RPM packages, @Austin_Hemmelgarn are we delivering eBPF with RPM packages?

You can verify if the plugin was installed running the command:

```auto
$ ls ${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/ebpf.plugin

```

If you have the plugin installed, it is possible the SELinux is blocking you, I had to configure it manually on my CentOS 7.9, and we wrote a step-by-step [here](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/ebpf.plugin#selinux).

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**Author:** ![pdgaaa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/pdgaaa/32/433_2.png) [@pdgaaa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pdgaaa)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/3 "2021-03-26T13:39:18Z")

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Thanks @Thiago_Marques_0 . I haven’t the plugin in `${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/` directory.

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**Author:** ![Austin\_Hemmelgarn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/austin_hemmelgarn/32/4495_2.png) [@Austin\_Hemmelgarn](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Austin_Hemmelgarn)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/4 "2021-03-26T13:43:13Z")

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@Thiago_Marques_0 It looks like we tried to provide them but didn’t end up getting it actually working. I’ll try to sync up with you on Monday about figuring out exactly what is needed at this point.

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**Author:** ![Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/thiago_marques_0/32/281_2.png) [@Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Thiago_Marques_0)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/5 "2021-03-26T14:00:28Z")

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All right, ping me when you are available.  
Thank you @Austin_Hemmelgarn !

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**Author:** ![Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/thiago_marques_0/32/281_2.png) [@Thiago\_Marques\_0](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Thiago_Marques_0)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/6 "2021-03-26T14:02:27Z")

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@pdgaaa according latest @Austin_Hemmelgarn answer, you will only have it available if you compile from source, but we will work on this next week.

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**Author:** ![pdgaaa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/pdgaaa/32/433_2.png) [@pdgaaa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pdgaaa)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 10:43am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/ebpf-on-rhel7-9-rpm-install/1114/7 "2021-06-03T10:43:57Z")

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I have updated [netdata 1.26 rpm contain a empty ebpf.plugin · Issue #10200 · netdata/netdata · GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/10200) as the epbf plugin is still not avalaible on 1.31.0 rpm package.