Hadoop single node setup on Ubuntu
I tried to figure out how to use Hadoop and HDFS for a while. But the information on their official site is very scattered and out-of-updated. Here are some notes I did. A clean ubuntu 10.04 LTS build. Download hadoop package from here . The Hadoop's versioning rule is very confusing. 1.0.x is stable version 1.1.x is beta version 2.x.x is alpha version 0.23.x is similar to 2.x.x but missing Name Node HA I tried to ignore all other version started with 0.2x. I just use 1.0.4 directly. Download the KEYS in the root directory Download the from hadoop_1.0.4-1_i386.deb(or it's x64 version) and it's asc file from hadoop-1.0.4 folder. Check the integrity run `gpg --import KEYS` run `gpg --verify hadoop_1.0.4-1_i386.deb.asc` You should see mac@mac-ubuntu:~/projects/hadoop$ gpg --verify hadoop_1.0.4-1_i386.deb.asc gpg: Signature made Thu 04 Oct 2012 01:04:55 PM PDT using RSA key ID ECB31663 gpg: Good signature from "Matthew Foley (CODE SIGNING KEY) <m...