# Installation ## Prerequisites Make sure you have followed the [instructions](https://docs.halon.io/manual/comp_install.html#installation) in our manual to add our package repository. ## Distributions ### Ubuntu To install the .deb package use the following commands. ```console $ apt-get update $ apt-get install ctasd ``` ### RHEL To install the .rpm package use the following commands. ```console $ yum install ctasd ``` ## Startup When the initial [configuration](config.html.md) is in place, the program can be started with: ```console $ sudo systemctl start ctasd $ sudo systemctl start ctasd-o ``` ## Docker & K8s For instructions on how to build a container image of the program as well as deploying it on K8s (Kubernetes), see our [halon-docker](https://github.com/halon/halon-docker) GitHub repository.