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WARNING 3: BigTop involves installing several Hadoop-related services on your machine that are enabled by default (i.e., started upon system reboot). If you would rather have the services start only when you specifically activate them, check your OS-specific documentation for disabling specific services at startup, for example see here, here and here for Ubuntusome options.

NOTE 1: We support Fedora 16 and tested Bigtop 0.5.0 on it; however, we haven't released any binary artifacts for it.

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1. Make sure to grab the repo file:

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   wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/bigtop.repo http://archive.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/repos/[centos5|centos6|fedora17]/bigtop.repo

2. Browse through the artifacts

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   yum search mahout

3. Install the full Hadoop stack (or parts of it)

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   sudo yum install hadoop\* flume\* mahout\* oozie\* whirr\* hbase\* hive\*

SLES 11, OpenSUSE

1. Make sure to grab the repo file:

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   wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/repos/[sles11|opensuse12]/bigtop.repo sudo mv#mv bigtop.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/bigtop.repo

2. Refresh zypper to start looking at the newly added repo

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   sudo zypper#zypper refresh

3. Browse through the artifacts

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   zypper search mahout

4. Install the full Hadoop stack (or parts of it)

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   sudo zypper install hadoop\* flume\* mahout\* oozie\* whirr\* hive\*

Ubuntu (64 bit, lucid, precise, quantal)

1. Install the Apache Bigtop GPG key

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   wget -O- http://archive.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/repos/GPG-KEY-bigtop | sudo apt-key add -

2. Make sure to grab the repo file:

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   sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bigtop-0.5.0.list http://archive.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/repos/`lsb_release --codename --short`/bigtop.list

3. Update the apt cache

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   sudo apt-get update

4. Browse through the artifacts

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   apt-cache search mahout

5. Install bigtop-utils

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   sudo apt-get install bigtop-utils

6. Make sure that you have the latest JDK installed on your system as well. You can either get it from the official Oracle website (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u29-download-513648.html) or follow the advice given by your Linux distribution. If your JDK is installed in a non-standard location, make sure to add the line below to the /etc/default/bigtop-utils file

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   export JAVA_HOME=XXXX

7. Install the full Hadoop stack (or parts of it)

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   sudo apt-get install hadoop\* flume-* mahout\* oozie\* whirr-* hive\*

Running Hadoop

After installing Hadoop packages onto your Linux box, make sure that:

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One of the advantages of Bigtop is the ease of installation of the different Hadoop Components without having to hunt for a specific Hadoop Component distribution and matching it with a specific Hadoop version.
Please visit the link above to run some easy examples from the Bigtop distribution !
Provided at the link above are examples to run Hadoop 1.0.1 and nine other components from the Hadoop ecosystem (hive/hbase/zookeeper/pig/sqoop/oozie/mahout/whirr and flume).
See the

<a href="https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/master/bigtop.mk" target="_blank">Bigtop Make File</a>

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