.. _install-doc:

Installing Varnish

.. no section heading here.

With open source software, you can choose to install binary packages or compile it yourself from source code. To install a package or compile from source is a matter of personal taste. If you don't know which method to choose, we recommend that you read this whole section and then choose the method you feel most comfortable with.

Unfortunately, something as basic as installing a piece of software is highly operating system specific:

.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2

install_debian
install_freebsd
install_openbsd
install_redhat

Compiling Varnish from source

If there are no binary packages available for your system, or if you want to compile Varnish from source for other reasons:

.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2

install_source

Other pre-built Varnish packages

Here is a list of the ones we know about:

ArchLinux package_ and ArchLinux wiki_
Alpine Linux_
UPLEX Packages_ with various vmods for Debian, Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS

.. _ArchLinux package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/varnish/ .. _ArchLinux wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Varnish .. _Alpine Linux: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/varnish .. _UPLEX Packages: https://pkg.uplex.de/