Installing the Streams Quick Start Edition for Linux

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The Streams Quick Start Edition (QSE) can help you get started with Streams quickly, without having to install a Streams cluster environment.


This guide takes you through the process of installing QSE Linux Edition.

Hardware Requirements

Component Minimum requirements Comments
System x86_64 (64-bit) IBM Streams supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
IBM® Power Systems™ (64-bit) RHEL systems that are running little endian support on POWER8 processor.
Display 1280 x 1024 Lower resolutions are supported but not preferred for Streams Studio.
Memory 2 GB The amount of memory that is required by IBM Streams is dependent on the applications that are developed and deployed.

This minimum requirement is based on the memory requirements of the Commodity Purchasing sample application and other samples that are provided with the product.

Disk space 7.5 GB, if installing the main installation package Includes disk space required for installation and development resources. For more information about installation packages, see Main and domain host installation packages for IBM Streams.
2 GB, if installing the domain host installation package

Software Requirements

Operating system System hardware and architecture Supported operating system versions
RHEL x86_64 (64-bit) Version 6.6, or later
Version 7.0, or later
IBM Power Systems (64-bit)

IBM Streams supports the POWER8™ processors (little endian).

Version 7.1, or later

Installation Instructions

Refer to the Knowledge Center for install instructions: Install Instructions for Quick Start Edition for Linux

Resources

For details on system requirements for Streams QSE for Linux, refer to the Knowledge Center.

What to do next

Explore the Streams QSE following the Quick Start Edition VM Getting Started Guide