Download Citus Open Source

You can download & install Citus open source packages for a multitude of different operating systems. The steps below will get you started and then send you to Citus Docs for more instructions on installing Citus.

Looking for the Citus source code? Find Citus on GitHub.

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Single-Node Citus

Multi-Node Citus

Install Citus on multiple nodes with Ubuntu or Debian, or Red Hat.

To install with Ubuntu or Debian, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension on all nodes:

curl https://install.citusdata.com/community/deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-17-citus-13.0
sudo pg_conftool 17 main set shared_preload_libraries citus

CONFIGURE THE CLUSTER

To install with Red Hat, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension on all nodes:

curl https://install.citusdata.com/community/rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo yum install -y citus130_17
sudo service postgresql-17 initdb || sudo /usr/pgsql-17/bin/postgresql-17-setup initdb
echo "shared_preload_libraries = 'citus'" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/pgsql/17/data/postgresql.conf

CONFIGURE THE CLUSTER

Download Citus Open Source

Install Citus on a single node with Docker, Ubuntu or Debian, or Red Hat.

Docker

After installing Docker, you can start Citus in Docker with one command:

Ubuntu or Debian

To install with Ubuntu or Debian, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension:

Red Hat

To install with Red Hat, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension:

Install Citus on multiple nodes with Ubuntu or Debian, or Red Hat.

Ubuntu or Debian

To install with Ubuntu or Debian, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension on all nodes:

Red Hat

To install with Red Hat, install the pgdg repository & the Citus extension on all nodes: