MonetDB Download Area for Fedora

This directory contains RPMs for various versions of Fedora.

All commands on this page should be executed as superuser (root). You may be able to add sudo in front of every command, or else run su first.

Install the MonetDB-release package:

dnf install https://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/Fedora/MonetDB-release.noarch.rpm

Alternatively, download the file monetdb.repo and copy it to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory. You should then also install the MonetDB GPG public key:

rpm --import https://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/MonetDB-GPG-KEY

After this, you can use dnf list MonetDB\* to list the MonetDB packages. To install MonetDB/SQL, use:

dnf install MonetDB-SQL MonetDB-client

This can be simplified if you let dnf automatically select recommended packages (the default) to:

dnf install MonetDB

If you use SELinux, also install MonetDB-selinux:

dnf install MonetDB-selinux

If you wish, you can have systemd manage the MonetDB service. If you do, the databases will be in /var/monetdb5/dbfarm:

systemctl enable monetdbd
systemctl start monetdbd

Add any users who are allowed to run a database server in the default location (/var/monetdb5/dbfarm) to the monetdb group, which was automatically created during the install step:

usermod -a -G monetdb $USER

Then log out and back in again to activate this change. After this you can run monetdbd or mserver5.

Further information about the "Mar2025" release is available in the release notes.