December 18, 2012 23:36 · Dec 18, 2012
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+Here are simple steps to install [Datadog's agent](https://github.com/Datadog/dd-agent) on FC17. These steps are meant to be work-arounds until the necessary changes can be brought back into the mainline.
+
+# Steps
+
+Run the one-liner from our [agent page](https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#agent)
+
+Change the repository in `/etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo` to have a baseurl of:
+
+    baseurl = http://yum.datad0g.com/rpm/
+
+in order to pull the latest agent builds.
+
+Download [python-tornado-2.3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm](https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent-deps/blob/master/python-tornado/python-tornado-2.3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm?raw=true)
+
+    curl -L "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent-deps/blob/master/python-tornado/python-tornado-2.3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm?raw=true" \
+    > python-tornado-2.3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm
+    sudo yum localinstall python-tornado-2.3-1.fc17.noarch.rpm  
+
+And restart the agent.
+
+    sudo service datadog-agent restart
+
+# Rationale
+
+The crux of the issue is that the agent requires [Tornado](https://github.com/facebook/tornado) to run. Older RedHat derivatives did not include recent tornado packages (if at all) so we distribute our [own packaged version](https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent-deps), python-tornado 2.3, with a dependency on python and an implicit dependency on python 2.6. FC17 ships with python 2.7 and python-tornado 2.2.1, with a dependency on python 2.7.
+
+Thus setting up our packaged version python-tornado on FC17 is not picked up by python 2.7, thus the agent does not run out of the box.
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