How to install the prerequisites for the node manager on Linux

Keywords: Nodemanager, Linux, Debian, RedHat, tsnm,12

In order to install the Tibco Spotfire node manager (version 12 and later) on a Debian 11 system you first need to install the .Net framework.

Run the following to install the .Net components:

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Followed by:

sudo apt-get update; \ 
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \ 
sudo apt-get update && \ 
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

See the following link for more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian

You also need to install the xvfb package if not present on the system:

sudo apt-get -y install xvfb

After you have done this you can continue with the node manager installation as outlined in the documentation:

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/12.0.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/installing_a_node_manager_(tarball_linux).html

RedHat is not a supported OS for the nodemanager, but you can install the prerequisites using a similar approach.

yum install dotnet-sdk-6.0 -y
yum install Xvfb -y
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
yum update -y
yum install libgdiplus -y