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Getting Started

Linux Packages

Install DocumentDB on Linux hosts with apt/rpm packages.

Fastest path

Use the Package Finder to generate the exact install command for your distro, architecture, and PostgreSQL version.

The repository-backed install commands currently cover Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 11/12, and RHEL-family 8/9 systems. Debian 13 packages are available as direct downloads from GitHub Releases while the APT repository component is being published. Debian 11 currently resolves PostgreSQL 16 and 17 in the repository-backed flow.

APT example

sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install -y curl ca-certificates gnupg && \
curl -fsSL https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.gpg && \
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.gpg] https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt noble-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list >/dev/null && \
curl -fsSL https://documentdb.io/documentdb-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /usr/share/keyrings/documentdb-archive-keyring.gpg && \
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/documentdb-archive-keyring.gpg] https://documentdb.io/deb stable ubuntu24" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/documentdb.list >/dev/null && \
sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install -y postgresql-16-documentdb

RPM example

sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm && \
sudo dnf install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-9-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm && \
sudo dnf -qy module disable postgresql && \
sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core && \
(sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb || \
 sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools || \
 sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms) && \
sudo rpm --import https://documentdb.io/documentdb-archive-keyring.gpg && \
printf '%s\n' \
  '[documentdb]' \
  'name=DocumentDB Repository' \
  'baseurl=https://documentdb.io/rpm/rhel9' \
  'enabled=1' \
  'gpgcheck=1' \
  'gpgkey=https://documentdb.io/documentdb-archive-keyring.gpg' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/documentdb.repo >/dev/null && \
sudo dnf install -y postgresql16-documentdb

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