1. Install YugabyteDB

• macOS
• Linux
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Prerequisites

1. One of the following operating systems:

   • CentOS 7 or later

   • Ubuntu 16.04 or later

2. Verify that you have Python 2 or 3 installed.

   $ python --version
   

   Python 3.7.3
   

   Note

   By default, CentOS 8 doesn't have an unversioned system-wide python command to avoid locking users to a specific version of Python. One way to fix this is to set python3 the alternative for python by running: sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3.

   Starting from Ubuntu 20.04, python isn't available anymore. An easy fix is to install sudo apt install python-is-python3.

3. wget or curl is available.

   The instructions use the wget command to download files. If you prefer to use curl, you can replace wget with curl -O.

   To install wget:

   • CentOS: yum install wget
   • Ubuntu: apt install wget

   To install curl:

   • CentOS: yum install curl
   • Ubuntu: apt install curl

4. Each tablet maps to its own file, so if you experiment with a few hundred tables and a few tablets per table, you can soon end up creating a large number of files in the current shell. Make sure to configure ulimit values.

Download YugabyteDB

1. Download the YugabyteDB package using the following wget command.

   $ wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.11.2.0/yugabyte-2.11.2.0-b89-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
   

   
   OR:

   $ wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.11.2.0/yugabyte-2.11.2.0-b89-el8-aarch64.tar.gz
   

2. Extract the package and then change directories to the YugabyteDB home.

   $ tar xvfz yugabyte-2.11.2.0-b89-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.11.2.0/
   

   
   OR:

   $ tar xvfz yugabyte-2.11.2.0-b89-el8-aarch64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.11.2.0/
   

Configure YugabyteDB

To configure YugabyteDB, run the following shell script.