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Does my operating system have prerequisites?

Your operating system may require pre-installation setup before installing dbt Core with pip. After downloading and installing any dependencies specific to your development environment, you can proceed with the pip installation of dbt Core.

CentOS​

CentOS requires Python and some other dependencies to successfully install and run dbt Core.

To install Python and other dependencies:


sudo yum install redhat-rpm-config gcc libffi-devel \
  python-devel openssl-devel

MacOS​

The MacOS requires Python 3.8 or higher to successfully install and run dbt Core.

To check the Python version:


python --version

If you need a compatible version, you can download and install Python version 3.9 or higher for MacOS.

If your machine runs on an Apple M1 architecture, we recommend that you install dbt via Rosetta. This is necessary for certain dependencies that are only supported on Intel processors.

Ubuntu/Debian​

Ubuntu requires Python and other dependencies to successfully install and run dbt Core.

To install Python and other dependencies:


sudo apt-get install git libpq-dev python-dev python3-pip
sudo apt-get remove python-cffi
sudo pip install --upgrade cffi
pip install cryptography~=3.4

Windows​

Windows requires Python and git to successfully install and run dbt Core.

Install Git for Windows and Python version 3.8 or higher for Windows.

For further questions, please see the Python compatibility FAQ

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