[rixed]

Wanted to try it.

Debian package is of poor quality: not even sure if clickhouse local is included in there, I believe so but there is no manpage, no doc at all, and no `clickhouse-server -h`.

Went to the official page looking for a tarball to download, found only the `curl|sh` joke.

Went to github looking for tagged tarballs, couldn't find any. Looked for INSTALL.md, couldn't find any.

Will try harder later, have to weep my tears for now.

[zX41ZdbW]

ClickHouse is a single binary. It can be invoked as clickhouse-server, clickhouse-client, and clickhouse-local. The help is available as `clickhouse-local --help`. clickhouse-local also has a shorthand alias, `ch`.

This binary is packaged inside .deb, .rpm, and .tgz, and it is also available for direct download. The curl|sh script selects the platform (x86_64, aarch64 x Linux, Mac, FreeBSD) and downloads the appropriate binary.

[pradeepchhetri]

> Debian package is of poor quality

Can you elaborate more please? I would love if you can say what all can be improved to make debian package up to standards.

[rixed]

Thank you for your interest.

My comment was really about the state of documentation ("there is no manpage, no doc at all, and no `clickhouse-server -h`"). More specifically:

  % dpkg -S clickhouse-server | grep bin
  clickhouse-server: /usr/sbin/clickhouse-server
  % man clickhouse-server
  No manual entry for clickhouse-server
  % man clickhouse       
  No manual entry for clickhouse
  % /usr/sbin/clickhouse-server --help
  Unknown option specified: help
  % /usr/sbin/clickhouse-server -h    
  Unknown option specified: h
  % ls -l /usr/share/doc/clickhouse-server
  total 60
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   235 Dec  5  2022 changelog.Debian.amd64.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1437 Dec  5  2022 changelog.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33174 Dec 20  2018 changelog.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15057 Oct 29  2022 copyright