It might be easier if you start with some sandbox environment for your first setup. Search 'hadoop sandbox' in google.
Cheers On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi <mew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Mr. Ted > what about 3 and 4 where are hadoop-common and hadoop-hdfs > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For #1, you can get the tar ball from > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hadoop/common/ > > e.g. http://www.motorlogy.com/apache/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.1.0-beta/ > > > > It is in maven too: http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/ > > > > For #2, see https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi <mew...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm new to Hadoop and i want to learn it in order to do a project. > > > I'v started reading the documentation at this site: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.1.0-beta/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html > > > > > > for setting a single node, but i could not figure a lot of things in > > these > > > documentation. > > > > > > 1."You should be able to obtain the MapReduce tarball from the release" > > > > > > I could not find this tarball, where is it. > > > > > > 2."You will need protoc 2.5.0 installed" > > > > > > what is that, there is no even a link for it or what is it > > > > > > 3."Assuming you have installed hadoop-common/hadoop-hdfs" > > > > > > what also are these, and why you are assuming that. i have just > downlaod > > > the hadoop-2.1.0-beta< > > > http://ftp.itu.edu.tr/Mirror/Apache/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.1.0-beta/ > >and > > > extracted it > > > > > > 4. and exported *$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME*/*$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME* > > > > > > !! that is strange, to where should these environment variables > > indicating > > > > > > lastly as i know,the first step tutorial should give more details. or > am > > i > > > searching the wrong side. > > > ** > > > ** > > > > > >