# Unable to reinstall Netdata

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/unable-to-reinstall-netdata/1506>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/unable-to-reinstall-netdata/1506 "2021-07-05T11:35:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![eramsorgr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/eramsorgr/32/986_2.png) [@eramsorgr](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/eramsorgr)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/unable-to-reinstall-netdata/1506/1 "2021-07-05T11:35:49Z")

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## Environment

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS GNU/Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86\_64

## Problem/Question

I am unable to reinstall Netdata after following the uninstallation guide. I receive this error while trying to run the command `bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh) --dont-wait --aclk-ng` (using aclk-ng to mitigate the ‘unrechable’ error found on [this thread](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nodes-shown-as-unreachable/1345/)):

![Termius_OJnuKEMEhE](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/1X/4f4da60b14f45fda02fea4e2e0ef44a6c25c651d.png)

## What I expected to happen

The installation to continue

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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:** [July 5, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/unable-to-reinstall-netdata/1506/2 "2021-07-05T11:51:46Z")

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Assuming you’re _certain_ that you did indeed install using the kickstart script (and not your system package manager or by manually building Netdata), you should be able to get it working by adding `--allow-duplicate-installs` to the list of options for the script. You _might_ also need `--reinstall`, but I’m not sure about that one.

This check exists to keep people from accidentally installing Netdata on top of an installation done through the package manager, which will typically result in a state that cannot be cleanly uninstalled and is liable to break unexpectedly when the version of netdata installed from the package manager gets updated. Normally it shouldn’t trigger in cases like this, but sometimes something goes wrong during an update and causes this to happen.

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**Author:** ![eramsorgr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/eramsorgr/32/986_2.png) [@eramsorgr](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/eramsorgr)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/unable-to-reinstall-netdata/1506/3 "2021-07-05T12:17:49Z")

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That did the trick, cheers!