Installing Veeam Agent for Linux

To install Veeam Agent for Linux:

1. Download the Veeam software repository installation package (veeam-release) from the this Veeam webpage, and save the downloaded package on the computer where you plan to install the product.

2. Navigate to the directory where you have saved the veeam-release package and install the package with the following commands:

For CentOS 7 / RHEL / Oracle Linux / Fedora

For openSUSE / SLES

For Debian / Ubuntu

3. Install Veeam Agent for Linux packages from the Veeam software repository. To install Veeam Agent for Linux, you can use a package manager of your choice that works with software packages in your Linux distribution. For example, use the following commands:

For CentOS 7 / RHEL / Fedora / Oracle Linux

For openSUSE Tumbleweed

For openSUSE Leap 15.3 with default kernel, Leap 15.4 and 15.5

For openSUSE Leap 15.3 with preemptive kernel

For SLES 12 SP4 – SP5, 15 SP1 – SP2 with default kernel

For SLES 12 SP4 – SP5, 15 SP1 – SP2 with preemptive kernel

For SLES 15 SP3 with default kernel, 15 SP4 and SP5

For SLES 15 SP3 with preemptive kernel

For Debian 10 / Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04 (kernel 5.4)

For Debian 11 – 12.0 / Ubuntu 22.04, 22.10 and 23.04

Managing Package Dependencies

The following dependency packages may require special handling in case you see installation errors:

• The dkms package is not present in default repositories for some Linux distributions. You should obtain it from third-party repositories:

• EPEL repository (for CentOS / RHEL / Oracle Linux / Fedora)
• Packman repository (for openSUSE). To learn more, see Installing dkms in openSUSE.

For SLES, the dkms package is not available in the Packman repository. You must use the package intended for openSUSE. To learn more, see this Veeam KB article.

• Extended kernels, such as kernel-pae, kernel-uek and other, require appropriate kernel-devel packages to be installed, for example, kernel-pae-devel, kernel-uek-devel, and so on.

Version of the kernel-devel package must match your current kernel version. To check your current kernel version, run the uname -r command.

[For RHEL and derivatives] If the yum package manager installs packages that do not match your current kernel version, you should either update your system or fetch older versions of the required packages from the CentOS Vault repository.

Installing dkms in openSUSE

In openSUSE systems, while installing the dkms package, you may see an error similar to the following:

To install the dkms package, do the following:

1. Make sure that you have an appropriate kernel-devel package installed and its version matches your kernel version. For example:

2. Install the dkms package ignoring dependencies:

3. Make sure that you have allowed unsupported modules. To learn more, see SUSE documentation.