IBM Streams 4.3.0

Installing Streams Studio for local development

Use this procedure to install Streams Studio on the same Linux system as the IBM® Streams product.

Before you begin

Restriction: Streams Studio for local development is not supported on IBM Power Systems™ that are running little endian. An alternative is to set up Streams Studio for remote development.

About this task

You can install Streams Studio by using the following methods:

Domain Manager
Streams Console
Streams Studio installation package for Linux

Procedure

To use the Domain Manager, complete the following steps:
1. Open the Domain Manager.
2. In the Additional Tasks section, click Install, develop and run streams applications in Streams Studio. The installation wizard guides you through the installation process.
To use the Streams Console, complete the following steps.
Important: You can download the Streams Studio package file from a resource that has the main installation package installed. Before downloading, ensure that the web management service is running on the resource, or an error message is displayed. You can use the streamtool getdomainstate command to verify that the service is running.
1. Open the Streams Console.
2. Click the Downloads icon and select Download Streams Studio for Linux.
3. Extract the contents of the StreamsStudio.tar.gz file into your Streams Studio installation directory.
4. To start Streams Studio, enter the following command:
```
Studio-installation-directory/streamsStudio -clean
```
To use the Streams Studio installation package for Linux:
1. Extract the contents of the following file into your Streams Studio installation directory:
```
product-installation-root-directory/4.3.0.0/etc/StreamsStudio/StreamsStudio.tar.gz
```
  where product-installation-root-directory is the root directory for the IBM Streams product installation.
2. To start Streams Studio, enter the following command:
```
Studio-installation-directory/streamsStudio -clean
```