Superset is an open-source business intelligence (BI) platform that enables users to work with the data effectively. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Superset on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before you start installing Superset, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:
Superset requires Python 3.x or later to run, so we need to create a Python virtual environment to isolate our application from the host system environment.
To create a virtual environment, run the following command in the terminal:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python3-venv
$ cd /opt
$ python3 -m venv superset
After creating the virtual environment, we need to activate it. Run the following command in the terminal:
$ source /opt/superset/bin/activate
To install Superset, we need to use pip, the Python package manager. Run the following command in the terminal:
$ pip install apache-superset
This command will install Superset and all its dependencies.
After installing Superset, we need to initialize the database. Run the following command in the terminal:
$ superset db upgrade
To access the Superset dashboard, we need to create an admin user. Run the following command in the terminal:
$ export FLASK_APP=superset
$ flask fab create-admin
After creating the admin user, we can start Superset with the following command:
$ superset run -h 0.0.0.0 -p 8080 --with-threads --reload --debugger
This command specifies that we want to run Superset on all network interfaces (-h 0.0.0.0), on port 8080 (-p 8080), with threaded mode (--with-threads), and with debugging (--debugger).
Now that Superset is running, open your web browser and go to http://<server_ip>:8080, where <server_ip> is the IP address of your server. You should see the Superset login page.
Login with the admin credentials you created in step 5, and you will be redirected to the Superset dashboard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Superset on your Ubuntu Server Latest.
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