Linux FME Flow Installation Checklist

Introduction

Installing FME Flow (formerly FME Server) on Linux requires some preparation. This article will provide checklists for Online installations and silent installation options.

Please be advised that these instructions were tested with FME Flow 2024 (b24622) Express installation hosted on Ubuntu 22.04

Manual Online Installation

1.  Start a bash shell session as the root user. 
2.  Update the system packages. Example:

apt update && apt upgrade

3.  Download and install the dependencies for the FME Flow component of the installation. Example:

sudo apt-get install zip & unzip

5.  Download the FME Flow installer package from the FME Downloads webpage using the command wget <FMEFlowInstallerPackageLinkAddress>. Example:

wget  https://downloads.safe.com/fme/2024/ubu_22/fme-flow-2024.1.2-b24622-linux-x64~ubuntu.22.04.run

6.  Assign execute permission to the installer package. Example:

sudo chmod +x fme-flow-2024.1.2-b24622-linux-x64~ubuntu.22.04.run

7.  Run the Installer

./fme-flow-2024.1.2-b24622-linux-x64~ubuntu.22.04.run

Listing All FME Engines Dependencies Using Shell Script

Below is a sample shell script for listing all the third-party dependency packages for the installation's FME Engines component.
This script should be saved as a .sh file under the “fmeflow” folder, provided with execute permissions, and then run. You will be prompted to provide the .deb file.

Note: Although some testing has been done, our QA team has not thoroughly tested this.  It is therefore recommended that customers looking to do this ensure they have tested the reconfiguration in a non-production environment to ensure all aspects of FME Flow they require to function do so correctly.
 

#!/bin/bash

#ask user for deb file
read -p “Please_enter_the_deb_file:” file
sudo apt install postgresql -ynano tes 2>> errors.txt
sudo apt install nginx -y 2>> errors.txt
sudo apt-get install zip unzip -y 2>> errors.txt
sudo apt-get install perl -y 2>> errors.txt
#getting all package info
dpkg -I $file> package.txt
#Retrieving data after “Depends:” till end of line
awk '/Depends/' package.txt> OnlyDependencies.txt 2>> errors.txt
#Removing the word “Depends:”
sed 's/Depends://g' OnlyDependencies.txt> RemovedthewordDepends.txt 2>> errors.txt
#Splitting each dependency package name to a separate line
awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
if(match($i,",")>0)
line=line $i"\n";
else line=line $i;
sub("^\n","",line);
print line}' RemovedthewordDepends.txt> SplitInSeperateLines.txt 2>> errors.txt
#Removed all the commas at the end of the package name
sed 's/,//g' SplitInSeperateLines.txt> RemovedCommas.txt 2>> errors.txt
#Removed all the additional info within brackets
sed 's/([^()]*)//g' RemovedCommas.txt> RemovedtheContentWithBrackets.txt 2>> errors.txt

Distributed Installations Checklist

Distributed installations can use the same method. However, you must ensure you can access the database and FME Flow File Share before installing it. You will need to set up the FME Flow User and create a mount for the file share. Please see this article on Linux Mounting Options
 

Silent Installation Parameter Overview

This list provides all the required Parameters for different installations and a few helpful parameters. The documentation includes information on these parameters.