Install agent tarball

If for some reason you do not want to install via apt-get or yum, for example if you are testing on Android or another OS, you can install via tarball.  

Install Agent tarball

1. download tarball

wget -q https://www.scalyr.com/scalyr-repo/stable/latest/scalyr-agent-2.1.18.tar.gz

2. extract

tar --no-same-owner -zxf scalyr-agent-2.1.18.tar.gz

3. rename

mv scalyr-agent-2.1.18 scalyr-agent-2

4. export path 

export PATH=${PWD}/scalyr-agent-2/bin:$PATH

5. set key

sudo scalyr-agent-2-config --set-key "API-KEY"

6. Start Agent

sudo scalyr-agent-2 start