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Expand Up @@ -78,6 +78,22 @@ sudo elastic-agent install

For basic use the agent binary can be run directly, with the `sudo elastic-agent run` command.

#### Packaging for other architectures
When packaging for an architecture different than the host machine,
you might face the following error:
```
exec /crossbuild: exec format error
```

If that happens, enable
[`multiarch/qemu-user-static`](https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static)
is to enable an execution of different multi-architecture containers
by QEMU and binfmt_misc:

```
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
```

### Docker

Running Elastic Agent in a docker container is a common use case. To build the Elastic Agent and create a docker image run the following command:
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