Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-22 Thread Keith Thomas
OK. I have kept battling through, guessing at the gaps in the getting started page but the final command to run the hadoop-examples.jar has blocked me. As far as I can tell there is no hadoop-examples.jar file in the distribution. At a higher level I must be doing something wrong. The path I've

The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Keith Thomas
After three years in a non-Hadoop Windows wilderness I am lucky enough to return and wow I find Hadoop 2.0 Brilliant! I quickly navigated here: http://hadoop.apache.org/index.html#Getting+Started and eagerly downloaded 2.0.3 alpha. Hmmm, now what? I see the following sections, *Getting

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Mayank Bansal
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.0.3-alpha/ On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Keith Thomas keith.tho...@gmail.com wrote: After three years in a non-Hadoop Windows wilderness I am lucky enough to return and wow I find Hadoop 2.0 Brilliant! I quickly navigated here:

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Mayank Bansal
There is a BUILDING.txt $ mvn package -Pdist -DskipTests -Dtar Thanks, Mayank On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Keith Thomas keith.tho...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the great link but sorry it looks like this is going to be a long process. Step 1 is: mvn clean install -DskipTests First

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Keith Thomas
Thank you for your help Mayank. I managed to google for BUILDING.TXT and discovered I need maven3. I installed maven3. When I enter the command on the getting started link you sent me this happens, keithomas@ubuntu:~$ mvn clean install -DskipTests [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO]

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Hitesh Shah
Also, BUILDING.txt can be found at the top level directory of the checked out code. -- Hitesh On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Hitesh Shah wrote: Assuming you have checked out the hadoop source code into /home/keithomas/hadoop-common/ , you need to run the maven command in that directory

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Keith Thomas
I have not checked out the source code. I have downloaded the following file hadoop-2.0.3-alpha.tar.gz http://apache.osuosl.org/hadoop/common/alpha/hadoop-2.0.3-alpha.tar.gz 07-Feb-2013 03:48 89M unzipped it and now I'm trying to find the installation instructions. -Keith On Thu, Mar

Re: The most newbie question ever

2013-03-21 Thread Harsh J
You've downloaded a binary inclusive release and can just start using it after configuring it. Mark the extracted path as HADOOP_PREFIX, and look at $HADOOP_PREFIX/etc/hadoop/ for the config files. Run HDFS and YARN via the $HADOOP_PREFIX/sbin/start-{dfs,yarn}.sh scripts, and of course place