# Unable to install PMM server on ubuntu 16

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-install-pmm-server-on-ubuntu-16/31926>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Tags:** pmm\
**Created:** [July 31, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-install-pmm-server-on-ubuntu-16/31926 "2024-07-31T10:43:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![erpramodprajapat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@erpramodprajapat](https://forums.percona.com/u/erpramodprajapat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-install-pmm-server-on-ubuntu-16/31926/1 "2024-07-31T10:43:26Z")

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## Description:

I am trying to install PMM server on ubuntu 16(due to some reason not able to upgrade OS), but its failing

curl -fsSL [https://www.percona.com/get/pmm](https://www.percona.com/get/pmm) | /bin/bash  
root@Pmm-monitoring:~# docker ps  
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES  
74cadsad23146 percona/pmm-server:2 “/opt/entrypoint.sh” 24 seconds ago Up 24 seconds (unhealthy) 80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443-\>443/tcp pmm-server

checked logs

root@Pmm-monitoring:~# docker logs -f 74caaba23146  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,945 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/alertmanager.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,945 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/dbaas-controller.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,946 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/grafana.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,946 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/pmm.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,946 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/prometheus.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,946 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/qan-api2.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,946 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/supervisord.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,947 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/victoriametrics.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,947 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/vmalert.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,947 INFO Included extra file “/etc/supervisord.d/vmproxy.ini” during parsing  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,947 INFO Set uid to user 0 succeeded  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,951 INFO RPC interface ‘supervisor’ initialized  
2024-07-31 10:29:25,952 INFO supervisord started with pid 1  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,955 INFO spawned: ‘pmm-update-perform-init’ with pid 11  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,958 INFO spawned: ‘postgresql’ with pid 12  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,961 INFO spawned: ‘clickhouse’ with pid 13  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,963 INFO spawned: ‘grafana’ with pid 14  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,979 INFO spawned: ‘nginx’ with pid 21  
2024-07-31 10:29:26,983 INFO spawned: ‘victoriametrics’ with pid 22  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,005 INFO spawned: ‘vmalert’ with pid 24  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,013 INFO spawned: ‘alertmanager’ with pid 25  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,018 INFO spawned: ‘vmproxy’ with pid 26  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,030 INFO spawned: ‘qan-api2’ with pid 32  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,053 INFO spawned: ‘pmm-managed’ with pid 34  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,055 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 2; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,115 INFO exited: qan-api2 (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,289 INFO exited: clickhouse (exit status 232; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:27,861 INFO exited: pmm-update-perform-init (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,165 INFO success: postgresql entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,167 INFO spawned: ‘grafana’ with pid 71  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,167 INFO success: nginx entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,168 INFO success: victoriametrics entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,168 INFO success: vmalert entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,168 INFO success: alertmanager entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,168 INFO success: vmproxy entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,170 INFO spawned: ‘qan-api2’ with pid 72  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,171 INFO success: pmm-managed entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,197 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 2; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,197 INFO exited: qan-api2 (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,414 INFO spawned: ‘clickhouse’ with pid 78  
2024-07-31 10:29:28,552 INFO exited: clickhouse (exit status 232; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:29,421 INFO spawned: ‘pmm-update-perform-init’ with pid 87  
2024-07-31 10:29:29,939 INFO spawned: ‘pmm-agent’ with pid 113  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,299 INFO spawned: ‘grafana’ with pid 122  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,302 INFO spawned: ‘qan-api2’ with pid 123  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,339 INFO exited: pmm-update-perform-init (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,340 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 2; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,341 INFO exited: qan-api2 (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:30,556 INFO spawned: ‘clickhouse’ with pid 143  
2024-07-31 10:29:31,184 INFO success: pmm-agent entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for \> than 1 seconds (startsecs)  
2024-07-31 10:29:31,184 INFO exited: clickhouse (exit status 232; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:32,411 INFO spawned: ‘pmm-update-perform-init’ with pid 180  
2024-07-31 10:29:33,020 INFO exited: pmm-update-perform-init (exit status 1; not expected)  
2024-07-31 10:29:33,367 INFO spawned: ‘grafana’ with pid 199  
2024-07-31 10:29:33,369 INFO spawned: ‘qan-api2’ with pid 200

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-install-pmm-server-on-ubuntu-16/31926/2 "2024-07-31T14:53:50Z")

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Hello @erpramodprajapat, Ubuntu 16 is not supported. That is an incredibly old OS. We currently only support PMM on Ubuntu 20, 22, and 24 LTS.

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