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1. Install YugabyteDB

Prerequisites

One of the following operating systems:
- CentOS 7 or later
- Ubuntu 16.04 or later
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.
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
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 the YugabyteDB package using the following wget command.

$ wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.13.0.0/yugabyte-2.13.0.0-b42-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

OR:

$ wget https://downloads.yugabyte.com/releases/2.13.0.0/yugabyte-2.13.0.0-b42-el8-aarch64.tar.gz

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

$ tar xvfz yugabyte-2.13.0.0-b42-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.13.0.0/

OR:

$ tar xvfz yugabyte-2.13.0.0-b42-el8-aarch64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-2.13.0.0/

To configure YugabyteDB, run the following shell script.

$ ./bin/post_install.sh

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