[Hadoop-common-user] Installing Hadoop on Debian Squeeze

On Tue, 15 Mar 11 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
What happened? I couldn't find any info on whether the packages were
removed from squeeze.

Dieter Plaetinck:
Hi,
I see there are various posts claiming hadoop is available through official
debian mirrors (for debian squeeze, i.e. stable): *
http://www.debian-news.net/2010/07/17/apache-hadoop-in-debian-squeeze/ *
http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/213/apache-hadoop-in-debian
-squeeze

However, it seems this is not (no longer?) the case:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=hadoop <- the packages are only
in unstable? (I can easily verify this, my debian squeeze box does not
find the packages, even after updating)

What happened? I couldn't find any info on whether the packages were
removed from squeeze.

I also tried using the Cloudera repository.
Note that the official installation document does not list instructions for
Debian, only Ubuntu, Suse and RH. ( see
https://docs.cloudera.com/display/DOC/CDH3+Installation)
In fact it seems Debian is not supported at all:
https://docs.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Before+You+Install+CDH3+on+a+Cluster

Just for the heck of it, I tried following the Ubuntu instructions, which
failed as well. (the cloudera repository does not have squeeze packages).
FWIW:

# lsb_release -c
Codename: squeeze
# echo 'deb http://archive.cloudera.com/debian squeeze-cdh3 contrib' >>
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list # echo 'deb-src
http://archive.cloudera.com/debian squeeze-cdh3 contrib' >>
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list # curl -s
http://archive.cloudera.com/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - OK
# aptitude update
(...)
Hit http://ftp.belnet.be squeeze Release
Err http://archive.cloudera.com squeeze-cdh3/contrib Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://archive.cloudera.com squeeze-cdh3/contrib i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Get:6 http://ftp.belnet.be squeeze-updates Release [41.8 kB]
(...)
Fetched 150 kB in 5s (28.7 kB/s)

# aptitude search hadoop
#


So, what's the best way to install Hadoop on Debian Squeeze?

Thanks,
Dieter

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:33:02 +0100 Thomas Koch wrote:

Currently my advise is to use the Debian packages from cloudera.

On 21/03/11 09:00, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:33:02 +0100
Thomas Kochwrote:
That's the problem, it appears there are none.
Like I said in my earlier mail, Debian is not in Cloudera's list of
supported distros, and they do not have a repository for Debian
packages. (I tried the ubuntu repository but that didn't work)

I now have installed it by just downloading and extracting the
tarball, it seems that's basically all that is needed.


Dieter