# Installing Ignition using apt-get

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**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-using-apt-get/4390 "2012-05-01T16:08:06Z")\
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I’ve been installing Ubuntu server via kickstart with a custom follow-up script. I’ve stripped some items for posting, but here’s the kickstart.cfg:[code]lang en\_US  
langsupport en\_US  
keyboard us  
mouse  
timezone UTC  
rootpw --disabled  
#Initial user

# generate crypted password with python:

# import crypt

# print(crypt.crypt(“My Password”, “$6$My Salt”))

user ignition --fullname “Ignition SCADA Server” --iscrypted --password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
reboot  
text  
install  
cdrom  
#System bootloader configuration  
bootloader --location=mbr locale=en\_US console-setup/ask\_detect=false keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us  
#Clear the Master Boot Record  
zerombr yes  
#Partition clearing information  
clearpart --all --initlabel  
#Partitioning  
part / --fstype ext4 --size 1 --grow --asprimary --label=Root  
#System authorization infomation  
auth --useshadow --enablemd5  
#Network configuration  
network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --ip=192.168.0.xxx/24 --gateway=192.168.0.1 --nameserver=192.168.0.1 --hostname=ign778  
#Firewall configuration  
firewall --disabled  
#Do not configure the X Window System  
skipx

# Other debian installer customizations (owner is “d-i” by default)

preseed partman-auto/choose\_recipe select atomic  
preseed partman-lvm/device\_remove\_lvm boolean true  
preseed partman-lvm/confirm boolean true  
preseed partman-lvm/confirm\_nooverwrite boolean true  
preseed partman-md/device\_remove\_md boolean true  
preseed partman-md/confirm boolean true  
preseed partman-md/confirm\_nooverwrite boolean true  
preseed partman-partitioning/confirm\_write\_new\_label boolean true  
preseed partman/confirm\_write\_new\_label boolean true  
preseed partman/choose\_partition select “Finish partitioning and write changes to disk”  
preseed partman/confirm boolean true  
preseed partman/confirm\_nooverwrite boolean true  
preseed pkgsel/update-policy select unattended-upgrades  
preseed --owner partman-basicfilesystems partman-basicfilesystems/no\_swap boolean false  
#custom packages for installation  
%packages  
@ ubuntu-server  
openssh-server  
unzip  
xfce4  
xfce4-session  
xvfb  
zip  
xmlstarlet  
%post  
mkdir -p /root/.ssh  
umask 022  
echo “ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nzaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx user@host” \>/root/.ssh/authorized\_keys  
mkdir -p /home/ignition/.ssh  
echo “ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nzaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx user@host” \>/home/ignition/.ssh/authorized\_keys  
chown -R ignition:ignition /home/ignition  
add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java  
apt-get update  
apt-get --yes --ignore-missing --with-new-pkgs upgrade  
debconf-set-selections \<\<debconf-EOF  
oracle-java7-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true  
oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true  
debconf-EOF  
apt-get --yes install oracle-java7-installer oracle-java8-installer  
update-java-alternatives -s java-8-oracle  
cd /home/ignition  
wget --no-verbose ‘[http://ks.automation-pros.com/ia/ia-install.sh](http://ks.automation-pros.com/ia/ia-install.sh)’  
wget --no-verbose ‘[http://ks.automation-pros.com/ia/ignition-build7.7.8-linux-x64.zip](http://ks.automation-pros.com/ia/ignition-build7.7.8-linux-x64.zip)’  
md5sum -c \<\<md5sum-EOF  
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ia-install.sh  
379ed4faf188be274bbcea4260ded5f3 ignition-build7.7.8-linux-x64.zip  
md5sum-EOF  
if test $? -eq 0 ; then  
chmod +x ia-install.sh  
./ia-install.sh  
else  
echo "Install aborted - bad download(s) " \>badinstall.txt  
date \>\>badinstall.txt  
fi[/code]The separate shell script ia-install.sh does the rest:[code]#! /bin/bash

# 

# Kickstart post-process to install downloaded ignition zip file and

# modules.

tgt="/usr/share/ignition"

cd /home/ignition

rm -rf /etc/ignition /var/log/ignition  
mkdir -p “${tgt}” /etc/ignition /var/log/ignition  
unzip ?gnition\*.zip -d “${tgt}”  
for x in _.modl ; do if test -f “$x” ; then mv “$x” “${tgt}/user-lib/modules” ; fi ; done  
cd “${tgt}/data”  
mv gateway._ log4j.\* /etc/ignition  
awk -f - ignition.conf \>/etc/ignition/ignition.conf \<\<-conf-EOF  
BEGIN { copyflag=1; printflag=1 }  
/^#?wrapper.java.additional/ {  
copyflag=0;  
if (printflag\>0) {  
print “wrapper.java.additional.1=-XX:+UseG1GC”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.2=-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.3=-Xloggc:/var/log/ignition/javagc-%WRAPPER\_TIME\_YYYYMMDDHHIISS%.log”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.4=-Ddata.dir=${tgt}/data”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.5=-Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE\_CLEAR\_REFERENCES=false”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.6=-XX:+PrintGCDetails”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.7=-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps”;  
print “wrapper.java.additional.8=-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps”;  
printflag=0;  
} }  
! /^#?wrapper.java.additional/ { copyflag=1 }  
/^wrapper.logfile=/ { copyflag=0; print “wrapper.logfile=/var/log/ignition/wrapper.log” }  
copyflag\>0 { print }  
conf-EOF  
mv ignition.conf /etc/ignition/ignition.conf.orig  
for x in /etc/ignition/\* ; do ln -s “$x” . ; done  
cd “$tgt”  
chmod +x _.sh  
xml="$(readlink -f "$(find -path '_/main/\*/web.xml’)")"  
if test -f “${xml}” ; then  
xmlstarlet ed -L   
-u “/_:web-app/_:context-param[_:param-name=‘logs.dir’]/_:param-value”   
-v “/var/log/ignition/”   
-u “/_:web-app/_:context-param[_:param-name=‘etc.dir’]/_:param-value”   
-v “/etc/ignition/”   
“$xml”  
fi  
chown -R ignition:ignition “$tgt” /etc/ignition /var/log/ignition  
cd /etc/init.d  
rm -f ignition  
ln -s “${tgt}/ignition.sh” ignition  
update-rc.d ignition defaults[/code]You’ll have to fix up various parts for your situation, but I’ve been pleased. I modified the install ISO’s boot menu to have a default entry that launches the kickstart. It’s basically hands-free once started. Total deployment time from VM allocation in virt-manager to running Ignition is about ten minutes.

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