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· Nov 17

Installing IRIS in Linux

#InterSystems IRIS

Hi Guys,

 

We are planning to move our system from windows to Linux and I never used Linux before and all I know that is another operating system, so the new server has Linux which looks like just terminal session like Dos and as I ran "uname -r" command to check for the version in it shows some like "6.1.112-124.190.amzn2023.x86_64".

So for the available IRIS distribution and can only found versions for Ubuntu and Red Heat, so do I have to either install one of them to be able to install & run IRIS? 

ideally I would prefer to work in a user friendly version not a terminal version of Linux and my understanding that Ubuntu is the most popular so do I have to install the latest Ubuntu on the top of the current existing Linux?  

 

Thanks

Product version: IRIS 2024.1
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Jeffrey Drumm · Nov 17

You can select from a number of Linux vendors/versions for an AWS installation. I would recommend you select Red Hat or Ubuntu rather than Amazon Linux; InterSystems officially supports those.

In my experience Red Hat is the more stable/compatible version and is the most widely used for IRIS implementations.

You would not install Ubuntu or Red Hat "on top of" Amazon Linux; you would select the Linux flavor when creating your EC2 instance.

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Luca Ravazzolo · Nov 18

John,

it looks like you are on AWS and you selected an AMI, most probably the default one, that offers AWS Linux distribution. It is a downstream of Fedora. We don't support it officially so pick and AMI with Ubuntu and Red hat.

wrt context: you'll find that in general the cloud runs on Linux. You'll get used to automate procedures with scripts and a plethora of tools that are available in the industry like bash, Terraform, Ansible or any config.management tool of your liking.

HTH

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