Installing Veeam Agent for Linux with Kernel Module

To install Veeam Agent for Linux, use the following commands:

For CentOS 7 / RHEL / Fedora / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux

yum install veeam

NOTE

[For CentOS 7 / RHEL] If the dkms package is already installed in the OS, you can install Veeam Agent with one of the following commands:yum install veeamWith this command, the Veeam kernel module will be installed from the source RPM package using dkms.[For CentOS 7 / RHEL 6 – 8] yum install kmod-veeamsnap veeam / [For RHEL 9] yum install kmod-blksnap veeamWith this command, the non-DKMS version of the Veeam kernel module will be installed from the pre-built kmod binary package.

For Oracle Linux 6 – 8

yum install veeamsnapyum install veeam

NOTE

If your system runs on Oracle Linux 8.x with UEK R7 kernel, you may need to rebuild the Veeam kernel module prior to its installation. For more information, see this Veeam KB article.

For Oracle Linux 9

yum install blksnapyum install veeam

For openSUSE Tumbleweed

zypper in veeam

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

zypper in blksnap-kmp-default
zypper in veeam

For openSUSE Leap 15.3 with preemptive kernel

zypper in blksnap-kmp-preempt
zypper in veeam

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

zypper in veeamsnap-kmp-default
zypper in veeam

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

zypper in veeamsnap-kmp-preempt
zypper in veeam