This blog provides a walkthrough of SQL Server Package Installation requirement for Ubuntu, RHEL & Docker. When you are going to install SQL Server vNext CTP1, you make sure that you are meeting the package installation requirement as per Operating System.
Requirements for package installation on Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Minimum of 3.25 GB of RAM
- Minimum of 4 GB of disk space
- EXT4 (default on Ubuntu) or XFS file system
- Network connectivity to the Internet to download the package
- 1433 TCP port open on the firewall for SQL Server connections
- A hostname of less than 15 characters
- wget is a required package to run the configuration script.
Requirements for Package Installation on RHEL 7
- Minimum of 3.25 GB of RAM.
- Minimum of 4 GB of disk space
- XFS (default on RHEL) or EXT4 file system
- Network connectivity to the Internet to download the package
- 1433 TCP port open on the firewall for SQL Server connections
- A hostname of less than 15 characters.
- wget is a required package to run the configuration script.
Requirements for Package Installation on Docker
- Docker Engine 1.8+ on any supported Linux distribution or Docker for Mac/Windows.
- Minimum of 4 GB of disk space
- Minimum of 4 GB of RAM
Important: The default on Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows is 2 GB for the Moby VM, so you will need to change it to 4 GB.
To do a step by step installation of SQL Server on Linux, you can follow my previous blogs – Create Virtual Machine, Install Ubuntu Server, Install SQL Server on Linux, Install SQL Server Tools
