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title: "Aerospike tools requirements"
description: "Installation requirements for Aerospike tools, covering supported OS versions and Python dependencies."
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# Aerospike tools requirements

> For the complete documentation index see: [llms.txt](https://aerospike.com/docs/llms.txt)
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This page describes the installation requirements for Aerospike tools. To learn about the command-line utilities and services available, see [Aerospike tools](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/).

Tool packages share the same support lifecycle as the database. See the [Database release notes](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/release/) to learn more.

While tools releases follow the database lifecycle, packages also ship on their own schedule using semantic versioning. Breaking changes are included only in major releases. Minor and patch releases are considered safe upgrades.

## Runtime requirements

Starting with tools 6.1.0, RPM, DEB, and macOS `.pkg` builds bundle Python, OpenSSL, and other dependencies. You do not need separate Python, OpenSSL, or pip installs.

-   On Linux you need **glibc** (`libc6`), which all [supported distributions](#supported-operating-systems) provide.
    
-   [aql](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/aql) requires `libreadline` at runtime (pre-installed on most Linux distributions).
    
    -   Debian/Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get install libreadline8`
    -   RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux: `sudo yum install readline`

## Supported operating systems

Tools 13.0.2 supports the following 64-bit platforms:

| Platform | Architectures | Operating systems |
| :-- | :-- | :-- |
| Linux | x86\_64, aarch64 | Debian 11, 12, 13  
Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 26.04  
RHEL 8, 9, 10  
Amazon Linux 2023 |
| macOS | ARM64, x86\_64 | macOS 14, 15, 26 |

::: note
-   macOS 11 was dropped in tools 11.1.0
-   macOS 12 was dropped in tools 11.1.1
-   macOS 13 was dropped in tools 12.1.0.
-   Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was dropped in tools 13.0.2.
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