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# Frequently Asked Questions
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This page provides help with the most common questions about Helm.
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**We'd love your help** making this document better. To add, correct, or remove
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information, [file an issue](https://github.com/helm/helm/issues) or
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send us a pull request.
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## Installing
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### Why aren't there Debian/Fedora/... native packages of Helm?
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We'd love to provide these or point you toward a trusted provider. If you're
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interested in helping, we'd love it. This is how the Homebrew formula was
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started.
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### Why do you provide a `curl ...|bash` script?
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There is a script in our repository (`scripts/get`) that can be executed as
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a `curl ..|bash` script. The transfers are all protected by HTTPS, and the script
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does some auditing of the packages it fetches. However, the script has all the
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usual dangers of any shell script.
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We provide it because it is useful, but we suggest that users carefully read the
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script first. What we'd really like, though, are better packaged releases of
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Helm.
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### How do I put the Helm client files somewhere other than ~/.helm?
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Set the `$HELM_HOME` environment variable, and then run `helm init`:
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```console
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export HELM_HOME=/some/path
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helm init --client-only
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```
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Note that if you have existing repositories, you will need to re-add them
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with `helm repo add...`.
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## Uninstalling
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### I want to delete my local Helm. Where are all its files?
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Along with the `helm` binary, Helm stores some files in `$HELM_HOME`, which is
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located by default in `~/.helm`.
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## Troubleshooting
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### On GKE (Google Container Engine) I get "No SSH tunnels currently open"
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```
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Error: Error forwarding ports: error upgrading connection: No SSH tunnels currently open. Were the targets able to accept an ssh-key for user "gke-[redacted]"?
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```
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Another variation of the error message is:
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```
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Unable to connect to the server: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority
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```
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The issue is that your local Kubernetes config file must have the correct credentials.
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When you create a cluster on GKE, it will give you credentials, including SSL
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certificates and certificate authorities. These need to be stored in a Kubernetes
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config file (Default: `~/.kube/config` so that `kubectl` and `helm` can access
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them.
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### Why do I get a `unsupported protocol scheme ""` error when trying to pull a chart from my custom repo?**
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(Helm < 2.5.0) This is likely caused by you creating your chart repo index without specifying the `--url` flag.
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Try recreating your `index.yaml` file with a command like `helm repo index --url http://my-repo/charts .`,
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and then re-uploading it to your custom charts repo.
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This behavior was changed in Helm 2.5.0.
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