April 2015
Beginner to intermediate
754 pages
21h 39m
English
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Appendix A. Installing Apache Hadoop
It’s easy to install Hadoop on a single machine to try it out. (For installation on a cluster, refer to Chapter 10.)
In this appendix, we cover how to install Hadoop Common, HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN using a binary tarball release from the Apache Software Foundation. Instructions for installing the other projects covered in this book are included at the start of the relevant chapters.
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Another option is to use a virtual machine (such as Cloudera’s QuickStart VM) that comes with all the Hadoop services preinstalled and configured.
The instructions that follow are suitable for Unix-based systems, including Mac OS X (which is not a production platform, but is fine for development).
Prerequisites
Make sure you have a suitable version of Java installed. You can check the Hadoop wiki to find which version you need. The following command confirms that Java was installed correctly:
%java -versionjava version "1.7.0_25" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)
Installation
Start by deciding which user you’d like to run Hadoop as. For trying out Hadoop or developing Hadoop programs, you can run Hadoop on a single machine using your own user account.
Download a stable release, which is packaged as a gzipped tar file, from the Apache Hadoop releases page, and unpack it somewhere on your filesystem:
%tar xzf hadoop-x.y.z.tar.gz
Before you can run Hadoop, you need to tell it where Java is ...
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