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title: "Install the PDC binaries on your server | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to install the private data source connect binaries on a Linux machine"
---

# Install the PDC binaries on your server

If you are installing the PDC binaries on your server, you must manually download and install them. The PDC binaries support Mac OS, Linux OS, and Windows OS across ARM64, AMD64, and 32-bit architectures.

You’ll download the PDC release for your platform, copy it to your server, and extract the binary on the command line.

1. In Grafana Cloud, click the **PDC Agent releases page** link to open the [releases page](https://github.com/grafana/pdc-agent/releases/tag/v0.0.38).
2. Download the file that matches your operating system and architecture.
3. Sign in to the server on which you are installing PDC and open the terminal.
   
   If you are installing PDC on a Linux machine and you are unsure of the architecture, run `uname -m` in the terminal. If you are installing on Linux, run `sudo su -` to switch to the root user.
4. Download the PDC binary compressed file. For example:
   
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   ```none
   wget https://github.com/grafana/pdc-agent/releases/download/v0.0.38/pdc-agent_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
   ```
5. Extract the contents of the compressed file. For example:
   
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   ```none
   tar -xvzf pdc-agent_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
   ```
6. You should see output similar to:
   
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   ```none
   pdc-agent_Linux_x86_64/LICENSE
   pdc-agent_Linux_x86_64/README.md
   pdc-agent_Linux_x86_64/pdc
   ```

You extracted the PDC agent files and are ready to deploy the agent in the next milestone.

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### Troubleshooting

Explore the following troubleshooting topics if you need help:

- [Contents of compressed file don’t appear](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/private-data-source-connect/configure-pdc/#no-contents-in-compressed-file)