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Installing RethinkDB server

Installing on OS X

There are two ways to install RethinkDB on OS X:

Via a binary package:

Prerequisites: We provide native binaries for OS X Lion and above (>= 10.7).

Download the disk image, run rethinkdb.pkg, and follow the installation instructions.

Via Homebrew:

Prerequisites: Make sure you're on OS X Lion or above (>= 10.7) and have Homebrew installed.

Run following in your terminal:

brew update && brew install rethinkdb

Installing on Ubuntu

Prerequisites: We provide binaries both for 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Lucid and above (>= 10.04).

To install the server, you have to add the RethinkDB PPA to your list of repositories and install via apt-get. To do this, paste the following lines into your terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rethinkdb/ppa   && \
sudo apt-get update                         && \
sudo apt-get install rethinkdb

If you don't have the add-apt-repository command, install it first:

Ubuntu Quantal and above (>= 12.10) — sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Earlier Ubuntu versions (< 12.10) — sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Installing on other systems

We'll be packaging RethinkDB for other systems, but for now you can try building from source.

Next steps

Now that you've installed the server, check out the driver installation page.