# Installing BigchainDB on LXC containers using LXD

**Note: This page was contributed by an external contributor and is not actively maintained. We include it in case someone is interested.**

You can visit this link to install LXD (instructions here): [LXD Install](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/)

(assumption is that you are using Ubuntu 14.04 for host/container)

Let us create an LXC container (via LXD) with the following command:

`lxc launch ubuntu:14.04 bigchaindb`

(ubuntu:14.04 - this is the remote server the command fetches the image from)
(bigchaindb - is the name of the container)

Below is the `install.sh` script you will need to install BigchainDB within your container.

Here is my `install.sh`:

```
#!/bin/bash
set -ex
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get install -y wget
source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install -y rethinkdb python3-pip
pip3 install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install ptpython bigchaindb
```

Copy/Paste the above `install.sh` into the directory/path you are going to execute your LXD commands from (ie. the host).

Make sure your container is running by typing:

`lxc list`

Now, from the host (and the correct directory) where you saved `install.sh`, run this command:

`cat install.sh | lxc exec bigchaindb /bin/bash`

If you followed the commands correctly, you will have successfully created an LXC container (using LXD) that can get you up and running with BigchainDB in <5 minutes (depending on how long it takes to download all the packages).