Monday, June 3, 2013

Installation of MapR on Ubuntu through Ubuntu Partner Archive.


In the continuation of my previous post about availability of Hadoop to ubuntu through Ubuntu Partner Archive.Now you can install
Hadoop using apt0get command.

pre-requisites:
CPU : 64-bit
OS : Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, or Ubuntu
Memory : 4 GB minimum, more in production
Disk : Raw, unformatted drives and partitions
DNS : Hostname, reaches all other nodes
Users : Common users across all nodes; Keyless ssh
Java : Must run Java
Other : NTP, Syslog, PAM

Step to install Hadoop:
Edit sources.list file and add the MapR repositories as fallows

deb http://package.mapr.com/releases/v2.1.2/ubuntu/ mapr optional
deb http://package.mapr.com/releases/ecosystem/ubuntu binary/


update your repository using fallowing command:
sudo apt-get update

Now invoke fallowing command to install Hadoop:
sudo apt-get install mapr-single-node

That's it,start hadooping.