Install software

Installing YugabyteDB involves completing prerequisites and downloading the YugabyteDB package.

Prerequisites

Before installing YugabyteDB, ensure that you have the following available:

One of the following operating systems:
- CentOS 7 or later
- Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Python 3. To check the version, execute the following command:
```
python --version
```
```
Python 3.7.3
```
By default, CentOS 8 does not have an unversioned system-wide python command. To fix this, set python3 as the alternative for python by running sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3.

Starting from Ubuntu 20.04, python is no longer available. To fix this, run sudo apt install python-is-python3.
wget or curl.

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:
- On CentOS, run yum install wget
- On Ubuntu, run apt install wget
To install curl:
- On CentOS, run yum install curl
- On Ubuntu, run apt install curl

Download YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB supports both x86 and ARM (aarch64) CPU architectures. Download packages ending in x86_64.tar.gz to run on x86, and packages ending in aarch64.tar.gz to run on ARM.

The following instructions are for downloading the STS (standard-term support) release of YugabyteDB, which is recommended for production deployments. For other versions, see Releases.

Download YugabyteDB as follows:

Download the YugabyteDB package using one of the following wget commands:

wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.18.0.1/yugabyte-2.18.0.1-b4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Or:

wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.18.0.1/yugabyte-2.18.0.1-b4-el8-aarch64.tar.gz

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

tar xvfz yugabyte-2.18.0.1-b4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.18.0.1/

Or:

tar xvfz yugabyte-2.18.0.1-b4-el8-aarch64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.18.0.1/

Configure YugabyteDB

To configure YugabyteDB, run the following shell script:

./bin/post_install.sh