The installation layout

The tarball installation layout is different from RPM or Debian packages. Let's see how they differ.

The directory layout in tarball installations

The following table shows the list of directories and their description:

Directory	Description
`bin`	This directory contains the startup scripts to launch the Cassandra server, the `cqlsh` prompt, and utility tools such as `nodetool`.
`conf`	This directory is the home of configuration files, including `cassandra.yaml`.
`lib`	This directory is Cassandra's Java dependency folder.
`pylib`	This directory contains Python libraries for `cqlsh`.
`tools`	Stress testing tools like `cassandra-stress` and other tools for example, `sstable2json`: which could be used to convert SSTables to `JSON` for debugging ...

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