First of all, you do not run ‘Streams’ as software. Rather, you run ‘streams’ which use Streams components and libraries under the cover.
Streams components can be embedded in a variety of data processing frameworks based on the problem and performance requirements at hand.
A great way to get started collecting and indexing data is with streams-runtime-local and Docker.
We‘ll assume you’ve got docker up and running.
Run from your command line:
$ docker ps
If you see a (possibly empty) list of running containers, you are good.