How to Install InfluxDB on OpenSUSE Latest

InfluxDB is an open-source time series database that can process high volumes of time-stamped data. This tutorial will guide you on how to install InfluxDB on OpenSUSE Latest.

Prerequisites

• OpenSUSE Latest
• sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Required Packages

In this step, we'll install the necessary packages required to build InfluxDB from source.

To install the required packages, run the following command:

sudo zypper install git make gcc g++ openssl-devel

Step 2: Install Golang

InfluxDB is written in Go, so we need to install the Go programming language on our system.

To install Golang, run the following command:

sudo zypper install go

Step 3: Install InfluxDB

In this step, we'll clone the InfluxDB GitHub repository and build it from source.

To clone the repository, first, change to the home directory by running the following command:

cd ~

Now, clone the InfluxDB repository:

git clone https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb.git

After the repository has been cloned, change to the influxdb directory:

cd influxdb

Now, build the InfluxDB binary by running the following command:

make

The build may take some time to complete depending on your system's resources.

Step 4: Start InfluxDB

After InfluxDB has been built successfully, start the InfluxDB server by running the following command:

./bin/influxd

The InfluxDB server should now be running. You can verify this by checking the logs:

tail -f ./build/logs/influxd.log

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed InfluxDB on OpenSUSE Latest. You can now use InfluxDB to store and query time-series data.