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Hadoop: Installation

Hadoop: Installation

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Hadoop: Installation

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- Let's install hadoop. First visit the hadoop website at hadoop.apache.org. Scroll down and click on releases. Let's download the 2.8.4 binary file. Click on the first mirror site link and choose save file. Click on okay. Now, go back to your terminal. Let's change our directory to downloads by typing cd ~/Downloads. Type ls. There, you see our hadoop binary file in it's archived form. Type tar -zxvf, and then the name of the file, hadoop-2.8.4.tar.gz to first uncompress the archived file, and then unarchive it. Press Enter. Type ls. You can now see a new directory called hadoop-2.8.4. Let's check out the directory by typing cd, and then the name of the directory, hadoop-2.8.4/ Press Enter, type ls, press Enter. Everything seems to be in the right place. Now, type sudo mkdir /usr/local/hadoop to create a hadoop directory to house our hadoop installation. Press Enter. Type your password. Now, it's time to move our locally unarchived hadoop installation to the proper directory we just…

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