Aerospike tools requirements

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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.

Tool packages share the same support lifecycle as the database. See the Database release notes 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 provide.
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 13.0.0 supports the following 64-bit platforms:

Platform	Architectures	Operating systems
Linux	x86_64, aarch64	Debian 11, 12, 13 Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 RHEL 8, 9, 10 Amazon Linux 2023
macOS	ARM64, x86_64	macOS 14, 15, 26