How To Install DuckDB

Installing DuckDB is fairly quick and easy since it is a single ~30MB file with no dependencies. 

 Installing the command line in Windows 

 The direct download link for x64 and arm64 is on the duckdb.org website 

 Unzip the duckdb.exe file and put it in C:\DuckDB\duckdb.exe or a location of your choice 

 Running the DuckDB Notebook from the Command Line 

 

 Open a command prompt 

 Navigate to your folder where duckdb.exe is.  Ex: CD C:\temp\ 

 Type duckdb -ui and press <Enter> 

 Wait a few seconds for it to launch a page in your default web browser 

 

   

 

 Installing in Python or R 

 Using DuckDB in Python or R is the easiest way to work with data sets that are larger than your RAM. 

 Installing in Python 

 pip install duckdb 

 Mac users will need to use pip3 rather than pip . 

 Installing in R / RStudio 

 install.packages("duckdb")