Install the cqlsh
standalone tool
Install the Cassandra Query Language shell (cqlsh
) standalone tool using a binary tarball on any Linux-based platform to use cqlsh
remotely on a DataStax database cluster.
This command line shell connects remotely to a DataStax database cluster.
You do not need to run cqlsh
locally on a cluster node.
Prerequisites
The cqlsh
utility for DataStax Enterprise 6.8 requires Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 through 3.11.
DataStax recommends using Python 3.11.
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Procedure
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Download the
cqlsh
binary tarball file for DataStax Enterprise 6.8 from the DataStax Downloads page. -
Change to the directory where you downloaded the
cqlsh
package:cd /DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY
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Extract the files:
tar -xzvf cqlsh-VERSION-bin.tar.gz
Replace
VERSION
with the package version that you downloaded, such as6.8.59
.The files are downloaded and extracted into the current directory.
Next steps
Connect to a cluster by starting the standalone cqlsh
tool.