MonetDB Download Area for Debian and Ubuntu

This directory contains the packages for Debian and Ubuntu. We usually build for all current versions of Debian and Ubuntu.

Create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monetdb.list with the following contents (replacing "suite" with your system's code name which you may be able to get by running the command lsb_release -cs):

deb https://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/deb/ suite monetdb
deb-src https://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/deb/ suite monetdb

Then issue the following command to install the MonetDB GPG public key:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/monetdb.gpg https://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/MonetDB-GPG-KEY.gpg

Check that you installed the correct file by using

sudo apt-key finger

Check that the output for the file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/monetdb.gpg contains the correct fingerprint: 8289 A5F5 75C4 9F50 22F8 EE20 F654 63E2 DF0E 54F3.

After this, you can use apt to install the MonetDB packages. First run:

sudo apt update

To install MonetDB/SQL, use the command:

sudo apt install monetdb5-sql monetdb-client

If you wish (and your system uses it), you can have systemd manage the MonetDB service. If you do, the databases will be in /var/monetdb5/dbfarm:

sudo systemctl enable monetdbd
sudo systemctl start monetdbd

Add any users who are allowed to run a database server to the monetdb group, which was automatically created in the previous step. This command does that for the current user:

sudo usermod -a -G monetdb $USER

Then log out and back in again to activate this change. After this you can run monetdbd or mserver5.

Further information about the "Jan2022-SP1" release is available in the release notes.