Yes you are right. One more question. I ran "mvn install" in the root folder of Mahout and the output shows all things are done
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Mahout Build Tools ................................ SUCCESS [ 43.560 s] [INFO] Apache Mahout ..................................... SUCCESS [ 10.598 s] [INFO] Mahout Math ....................................... SUCCESS [07:00 min] [INFO] Mahout Core ....................................... SUCCESS [54:10 min] [INFO] Mahout Integration ................................ SUCCESS [02:54 min] [INFO] Mahout Examples ................................... SUCCESS [ 52.636 s] [INFO] Mahout Release Package ............................ SUCCESS [ 0.017 s] [INFO] Mahout Math/Scala wrappers ........................ SUCCESS [02:40 min] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 01:08 h [INFO] Finished at: 2014-02-24T10:49:17+03:30 [INFO] Final Memory: 43M/166M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ However in the manual it says, change directory to core and run mvn compile .... This is no needed here because the log says core has been installed? Am I right? Regards, Mahmood On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:53 AM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote: Try mahout-distribution-0.9-src.tar.gz<http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/apache/mahout/0.9/mahout-distribution-0.9-src.tar.gz> or mahout-distribution-0.9-src.zip<http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/apache/mahout/0.9/mahout-distribution-0.9-src.zip> if you want to build the project. The version you have contains all the jars needed to run jobs but not the source. On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahm...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I have downloaded "mahout-distribution-0.9.tar.gz" and here is the content. > > hadoop@solaris:~/mahout-distribution-0.9$ ls > bin mahout-core-0.9.jar > conf mahout-examples-0.9-job.jar > docs mahout-examples-0.9.jar > examples mahout-integration-0.9.jar > lib mahout-math-0.9.jar > LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt > mahout-core-0.9-job.jar README.txt > > > > > Regards, > Mahmood > > > > On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:40 PM, LEQUEUX Sylvain < > deux_d_tens...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > Regarding the Maven message you get, it seems that there is no pom.xml > file in your mahout-distribution-0.9 directory. > What file did you download? The one suffixed by -src.zip or -src.targ.gz ? > Could you try a simple 'ls' (or 'dir' if you are using windows) to see > which files you have ? > > Regards, > Sylvain Lequeux > > > > > Le Dimanche 23 février 2014 20h08, Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahm...@yahoo.com> > a écrit : > > > > Hi, > I have followed the steps stated in > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/BuildingMahout to > install Mahout. However I get an error at "mvn install" > > hadoop@solaris:~/mahout-distribution-0.9$ mvn install > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] > BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 0.172 s > [INFO] Finished at: 2014-02-23T21:59:13+03:30 > [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] > The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no > POM in this directory (/export/home/hadoop/mahout-distribution-0.9). > Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help > 1] > [ERROR] > [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the > -e switch. > [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. > [ERROR] > [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible > solutions, please read the following articles: > [ERROR] [Help 1] > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException > > > Did I missed any prerequisite? > > Regards, > Mahmood >