Installing on Linux

Couchbase Server runs on several Linux systems: Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE Enterprise, Oracle Enterprise, and Amazon Linux.

You can download Couchbase Server for your OS directly from https://www.couchbase.com/downloads.

Links to the distribution-specific installation instructions for Linux can be found below:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
Ubuntu and Debian
SUSE Enterprise Linux
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Amazon Linux 2 (Requires Couchbase Server 6.0.1+)

For information on installing Couchbase Server on IPv6 systems, see IP Version 6: Set-Up Procedures.

RHEL6 and other newer Linux distributions are known to have Transparent Huge Pages (THP) feature enabled by default. THP can cause issues in database software, including Couchbase Server. THP can cause nodes to lose cluster heartbeats, resulting in erroneous automatic failovers. Disabling THP prior to installing Couchbase Server is strongly encouraged.