Which Vertica RPM to install for Amazon Linux 2

Pieter_Sheth-VoPieter_Sheth-Vo ✭✭
in General Discussion

I understand that Vertica can be installed on "Amazon Linux 2, which is based on RHEL7, and Vertica 12.x and 23.x are supported on RHEL7." I assume then the following RPMs would be correct ? (depending on whether instance is x86_64 or AARCH64)

vertica-25.3.0-0.RHEL8.x86_64.rpm
vertica-25.3.0-0.RHEL8.aarch64.rpm

https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000040182?language=en_US
https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000030363

Answers

  • Bryan_HBryan_H Vertica Employee Administrator

    Amazon Linux 2 is based on RHEL7, which means only the RHEL6 builds of Vertica will run. The last Vertica version to support RHEL6/7 and AL 2.0 is 23.4.
    As noted in the package name, version 24.1 and newer require RHEL8 or compatible, including Amazon Linux 2023.
    To your other question, Amazon Linux ships up-to-date gcc and g++ packages so UDX compilation should not be an issue. However, the current C++ SDK may require gcc 7 or gcc 8 (for 25.3) - please check the SDK install instructions for required minimum versions of compiler, toolchain, and libraries.

This discussion has been closed.