# Basic Installation This page contains generic installation instructions for Nominatim and its prerequisites. There are also step-by-step instructions available for the following operating systems: * [Ubuntu 22.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22.md) * [Ubuntu 20.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-20.md) These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form in the `vagrant/` directory. Users have created instructions for other frameworks. We haven't tested those and can't offer support. * [Docker](https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker) * [Docker on Kubernetes](https://github.com/peter-evans/nominatim-k8s) * [Kubernetes with Helm](https://github.com/robjuz/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/nominatim/README.md) * [Ansible](https://github.com/synthesio/infra-ansible-nominatim) ## Prerequisites ### Software !!! Warning For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and PostGIS 3+ otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable. Query performance has marked improvements with PostgreSQL 13+ and PostGIS 3.2+. For compiling: * [cmake](https://cmake.org/) * [expat](https://libexpat.github.io/) * [proj](https://proj.org/) * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/) * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/) * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/) * [nlohmann/json](https://json.nlohmann.me/) * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and filesystem * PostgreSQL client libraries * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+) For running Nominatim: * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended) * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended) * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.7+) * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+) * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv) * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil) * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/) * [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/) (1.4.31+ with greenlet support) * [asyncpg](https://magicstack.github.io/asyncpg) (0.8+) * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/) * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+) * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie) For running continuous updates: * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/) For running the Python frontend: * one of the following web frameworks: * [falcon](https://falconframework.org/) (3.0+) * [starlette](https://www.starlette.io/) * [uvicorn](https://www.uvicorn.org/) For running the legacy PHP frontend: * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.3+) * PHP-pgsql * PHP-intl (bundled with PHP) For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md). ### Hardware A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM. For a full planet install you will need at least 1TB of hard disk space. Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast. Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended. Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes around 2 days. When using traditional SSDs, 4-5 days are more realistic. ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database You might want to tune your PostgreSQL installation so that the later steps make best use of your hardware. You should tune the following parameters in your `postgresql.conf` file. shared_buffers = 2GB maintenance_work_mem = (10GB) autovacuum_work_mem = 2GB work_mem = (50MB) effective_cache_size = (24GB) synchronous_commit = off max_wal_size = 1GB checkpoint_timeout = 10min checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9 The numbers in brackets behind some parameters seem to work fine for 64GB RAM machine. Adjust to your setup. A higher number for `max_wal_size` means that PostgreSQL needs to run checkpoints less often but it does require the additional space on your disk. Autovacuum must not be switched off because it ensures that the tables are frequently analysed. If your machine has very little memory, you might consider setting: autovacuum_max_workers = 1 and even reduce `autovacuum_work_mem` further. This will reduce the amount of memory that autovacuum takes away from the import process. ## Downloading and building Nominatim ### Downloading the latest release You can download the [latest release from nominatim.org](https://nominatim.org/downloads/). The release contains all necessary files. Just unpack it. ### Downloading the latest development version If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to also check out the osm2pgsql subproject: ``` git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git ``` The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately: ``` wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz ``` ### Building Nominatim The code must be built in a separate directory. Create the directory and change into it. ``` mkdir build cd build ``` Nominatim uses cmake and make for building. Assuming that you have created the build at the same level as the Nominatim source directory run: ``` cmake ../Nominatim make sudo make install ``` !!! warning The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you are upgrading an older database or want to run the [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed. On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-` Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=` to the cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path in that case, e.g. ``` export PATH=/bin:$PATH ``` Now continue with [importing the database](Import.md).