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Install Tools on Ubuntu

Use these steps to install Aerospike Tools on Ubuntu operating systems.

Prerequisites

  • Requires a supported Ubuntu release.
  • Verify that your system satisfies the prerequisites that are described in Tools Requirements.
  • Verify that the package libreadline is installed on your Ubuntu system.
  • In server 6.3 Aerospike gains compatibility with OpenSSL 3, to support Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9/CentOS Stream 9, and other Linux distributions that support OpenSSL 3. The Aerospike server and clients retain compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.

Installation

See Download Aerospike Tools for more details on manual or automated downloads of Tools packages.

wget -O aerospike-tools.tgz https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-tools/latest/aerospike-tools__ubuntu20.04_x86_64.tgz
tar -xvf aerospike-tools.tgz
cd aerospike-tools_*
sudo ./asinstall

Debian Format

You can install the Debian package directly.

Starting with Tools 8.0.3 the Debian package format is as follows:

aerospike-tools_<version>-<[commit]distro>_<architecture>.deb

version: 8.0.3, and so on

distro: ubuntu18.04, ubuntu22.04

architecture: amd64, arm64 based on dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH

sudo dpkg -i aerospike-tools_8.0.3-ubuntu20.04_amd64.deb

Verify

Verify the package installation:

dpkg-query -l | grep aerospike-tools

If security is enabled for your Aerospike cluster, provide the username and password each time you verify one of the tools.

Verify asadm

asadm --version

The output looks like this:

Aerospike Administration Shell
Version 2.2.0

Verify aql

aql --version

The output looks like this:

Aerospike Query Client
Version 5.2.0
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2012-2020 Aerospike. All rights reserved.

Verify asinfo

asinfo --version

The output looks like this:

Aerospike Information Tool
Version 5.2.0

Verify asbackup

asbackup --version

The output looks like this:

Aerospike Backup Utility
Version 3.7.2
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2015-2021 Aerospike. All rights reserved.

Verify asrestore

asrestore --version

The output looks like this:

Aerospike Restore Utility
Version 3.7.2
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2015-2021 Aerospike. All rights reserved.