# Redhat 5 or Centos 5 support

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redhat-5-or-centos-5-support/45622>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redhat-5-or-centos-5-support/45622 "2016-03-28T20:17:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SuperBuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@SuperBuster](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperBuster)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redhat-5-or-centos-5-support/45622/1 "2016-03-28T20:17:35Z")

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Hi, any of you where able to install filebeat/packetbeat under centos 5 or redhat 5?

Right now i have 400 machines under redhat 5 and a massive upgrade of those machines is not possible....

All my servers on redhat 6 are fine but to have those agents compatible would be amazing.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redhat-5-or-centos-5-support/45622/2 "2016-03-28T20:24:23Z")

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It appears the Go compiler and runtime doesn't support RedHat/CentOS 5 because the kernel is too old. See [https://golang.org/doc/install](https://golang.org/doc/install) and [http://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/18/how-to-install-go-1-1-on-centos-5](http://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/18/how-to-install-go-1-1-on-centos-5).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redhat-5-or-centos-5-support/45622/3 "2017-07-05T21:54:06Z")

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