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Hadoop 1.0.4 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 ( Single Node )- Part -2/3 Download Hadoop Download a stable hadoop version from  http://hadoop.apache.org/ I downloaded the this version - hadoop 1.0.4 and this is the link to it stable hadoop download page . Download the file (hadoop-1.0.4.tar.gz) and copy it under the home directory of hadoop_usr ( ie. /home/hadoop_usr/) Steps to Install Login to terminal as hadoop_usr and extract the contents of the gz file tar -xvf hadoop-1.0.4.tar.gz We have to edit the following configuration file $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hadoop-env.sh $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hdfs-site.xml $HADOOP_HOME/conf/core-site.xml $HADOOP_HOME/conf/mapred-site.xml $HADOOP_HOME/conf/masters $HADOOP_HOME/conf/slaves $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hadoop-env.sh set the Java home # The java implementation to use.Required. # export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle $HADOOP_HOME/conf/hdfs-site.xml before editing this file create the following

Hadoop 1.0.4 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 ( Single Node )- Part -1/3 There are few ways to install Hadoop.  Cloudera Distibution Hadoop PPA Stable download from hadoop.org I prefer to use the download from hadoop.org. One of the main reason to select this is whenever there is a new version of hadoop, I need not wait for someone else to release their version including the newer version.  Should we not be installing hadoop on multi nodes? Yes. But my objective is to set-up a hadoop environment on my laptop, so that I can play around and also get a better understanding of Map-Reduce. For that single-node set-up is sufficient. Prerequisites Make sure you have already installed Java 1.6 on my machine. if not please follow this link -  Install Java 1.6 Create a separate user & usergroup for hadoop. I like to keep a dedicated user for hadoop. It is much easier when it comes to giving permissions and for various admin acitivies. It is not necessary tho. Create a separa

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