Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi
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

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Ted Yu
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

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi
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 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

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi
sorry, but i can't figure where *$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME,* *$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME,**$HADOOP_YARN_HOME and * *$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME * pointing to* * On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi wrote: > Thanks Mr. Ted > what about 3 and 4 where are hadoop-common and hadoop-hdfs > > > > On Sat, Sep 14

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Ted Yu
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 wrote: > Thanks Mr. Ted > what about 3 and 4 where are hadoop-common and hadoop-hdfs > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Ray DiGiacomo, Jr.
Hello Mahmoud, You are not the only one who thinks the Apache Hadoop installation documentation is unclear. You may want to train with a Hadoop trainer instead of going the pain-staking process of reading through Apache Hadoop setup documentation. Check out Lion Data Systems. They have web-base

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Marco Shaw
Along with what Ted says...  Find someone with a packaged demo or continue trying to manage your way through the install.  This is why some vendors are succesfull packaging Hadoop and offering support services: it's not always an easy task. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi

Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

2013-09-14 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi 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