It might be worth taking a look at the install documentation on the Hadoop on Mesos product here; https://github.com/mesos/hadoop
For our installations I don't think we really do much more than installing the apt packages you mentioned and then installing the hadoop-mesos jars.. plus adding the appropriate configuration. On Friday, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:52 pm, Kk Bk <kkbr...@gmail.com>, wrote: I am trying to install Hadoop on Mesos on ubuntu servers, So followed instruction as per link https://open.mesosphere.com/tutorials/run-hadoop-on-mesos/#step-2. Step-2 of link says to install HDFS using as per link http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/cdh4/latest/CDH4-Installation-Guide/cdh4ig_topic_4_4.html. Question: Is it sufficient to run following commands 1) On Namenode: sudo apt-get install hadoop-hdfs-namenode 2) On Datanode: sudo apt-get install hadoop-0.20-mapreduce-tasktracker hadoop-hdfs-datanode Or just follow the instructions on the mesosphere link that installs HDFS ?