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Adding more clear verbiage under Installation about upgrading/installing the waagent from sources as well as clarifying our recommnendations for autoupdate settings which have been causing lots of confusion.
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## Installation
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The preferred method of installing and upgrading the Azure Linux VM Agent uses an RPM or a DEB package from your distribution's package repository. All the [endorsed distribution providers](../linux/endorsed-distros.md) integrate the Azure Linux VM Agent package into their images and repositories.
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The supported method of installing and upgrading the Azure Linux VM Agent uses an RPM or a DEB package from your distribution's package repository. All the [endorsed distribution providers](../linux/endorsed-distros.md) integrate the Azure Linux VM Agent package into their images and repositories.
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Some Linux distributions might disable the Azure Linux VM Agent **Auto Update** feature and some of the repositories might also contain older versions, those might have issues with modern extensions so, we recommend to have the latest stable version installed.
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To make sure the Azure Linux VM Agent is updating properly we recommend having the option `AutoUpdate.Enabled=Y` in the `/etc/waagent.conf` file or simply commenting out that option will result in its defaults too. Having `AutoUpdate.Enabled=N` will not allow the Azure Linux VM Agent to update properly.
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For advanced installation options, such as installing from a source or to custom locations or prefixes, see [Microsoft Azure Linux VM Agent](https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent).
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For advanced installation options, such as installing from a source or to custom locations or prefixes, see [Microsoft Azure Linux VM Agent](https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent). Other than these scenarios, we do not support or recommend upgrading or reinstalling the Azure Linux VM Agent from source.
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## Command-line options
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