docs/content/v2.20/deploy/manual-deployment/install-software.md
Installing YugabyteDB involves completing prerequisites and downloading the YugabyteDB package.
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The following instructions are for downloading the stable release of YugabyteDB, which is recommended for production deployments. For other versions, see Releases.
{{<note title="Which release should I use?">}} For production deployments, install a stable release.
Preview releases are recommended for development and testing only, and are not supported for production deployments. There is currently no migration path from a preview release to a stable release. {{</note>}}
YugabyteDB supports both x86 and ARM (aarch64) CPU architectures. Download packages ending in x86_64.tar.gz to run on x86, and packages ending in aarch64.tar.gz to run on ARM.
Download and extract YugabyteDB as follows:
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wget https://software.yugabyte.com/releases/{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
echo "$(curl -L https://software.yugabyte.com/releases/{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-linux-x86_64-tar.gz.sha) *yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" | shasum --check && \
tar xvfz yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/
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wget https://software.yugabyte.com/releases/{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-el8-aarch64.tar.gz
echo "$(curl -L https://software.yugabyte.com/releases/{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-el8-aarch64-tar.gz.sha) *yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-el8-aarch64.tar.gz" | shasum --check && \
tar xvfz yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20" format="build">}}-el8-aarch64.tar.gz && cd yugabyte-{{< yb-version version="v2.20">}}/
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To configure YugabyteDB, run the following shell script:
./bin/post_install.sh