How to install the prerequisites for the node manager on Linux

Keywords: Nodemanager, Linux, Debian, RedHat, tsnm

For instructions see the following documentation:

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/14.0.7/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/running_web_player_or_automation_services_on_linux.html

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

See instructions below:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux

For Debian 12 download the .Net binary from

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-6.0.428-linux-x64-binaries

Then run the following:

mkdir -p $HOME/dotnet && tar zxf dotnet-sdk-6.0.428-linux-x64.tar.gz -C $HOME/dotnet 
export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/dotnet 
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/dotnet

For Ubuntu you can do the same as for Debian or run the below:

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

Below are the rest of the prerequisites

These are in the scripts named prerequisites-debian12.sh for Debian 12 for example, these files are located in:

{node-manager-installation-directory}/ spotfirenodemanager-{version-number}.x86_64/nm/services/webworker-net-core-*/Tools/ :

apt-get update
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
libxcomposite1 \
libasound2 \
libnss3 \
libatk-bridge2.0-0 \
libgbm1 \
libcups2 \
libxdamage1 \
libxrandr2 \
libxkbcommon0 \
libcairo2 \
libexif12 \
libfontconfig1 \
libgif7 \
libglib2.0-0 \
libharfbuzz0b \
libjpeg62 \
libpango-1.0-0 \
libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
libpng16-16 \
libtiff5 \
libx11-6 \
xvfb \
xauth \
fonts-liberation \
unixodbc

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/14.0.7/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/installing_a_node_manager_(tarball_linux).html

RedHat uses a similar approach:

yum install dotnet-sdk-6.0

dnf install --assumeyes \
libXcomposite \
alsa-lib \
nss \
at-spi2-atk \
mesa-libgbm \
cups-libs \
libXdamage \
libXrandr \
libxkbcommon \
cairo \
libexif \
fontconfig \
giflib \
harfbuzz \
libjpeg-turbo \
pango \
libpng \
libtiff \
libX11 \
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb \
xorg-x11-xauth \
liberation-fonts \
unixODBC