Can someone help with Hadoop installation Setup on Ubuntu

Question

Hi, I wish to learn to install Hadoop in standalone mode on Ubuntu. I have downloaded the Hadoop Tar file but I don't know the method to install the file.

Answer 1

I have understood your query, 

I have installed Hadoop in standalone mode on my Ubuntu system.

I'll drop down my hadoop my Hadoop-env.sh document here... 
you can refer it and setup yours.

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# Set Hadoop-specific environment variables here.

# The only required environment variable is JAVA_HOME.  All others are

# optional.  When running a distributed configuration it is best to

# set JAVA_HOME in this file, so that it is correctly defined on

# remote nodes.

# The java implementation to use.

export PATH=$JAVA_HOME

# The jsvc implementation to use. Jsvc is required to run secure datanodes

# that bind to privileged ports to provide authentication of data transfer

# protocol.  Jsvc is not required if SASL is configured for authentication of

# data transfer protocol using non-privileged ports.

#export JSVC_HOME=${JSVC_HOME}

export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=${HADOOP_CONF_DIR:-"/etc/hadoop"}

# Extra Java CLASSPATH elements.  Automatically insert capacity-scheduler.

for f in $HADOOP_HOME/contrib/capacity-scheduler/*.jar; do

  if [ "$HADOOP_CLASSPATH" ]; then

    export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:$f

  else

    export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$f

  fi

done

# The maximum amount of heap to use, in MB. Default is 1000.

#export HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=

#export HADOOP_NAMENODE_INIT_HEAPSIZE=""

# Extra Java runtime options.  Empty by default.

export HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

# Command specific options appended to HADOOP_OPTS when specified

export HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS="-Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,RFAS} -Dhdfs.audit.logger=${HDFS_AUDIT_LOGGER:-INFO,NullAppender} $HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS"

export HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS="-Dhadoop.security.logger=ERROR,RFAS $HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS"

export HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS="-Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,RFAS} -Dhdfs.audit.logger=${HDFS_AUDIT_LOGGER:-INFO,NullAppender} $HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS"

export HADOOP_NFS3_OPTS="$HADOOP_NFS3_OPTS"

export HADOOP_PORTMAP_OPTS="-Xmx512m $HADOOP_PORTMAP_OPTS"

# The following applies to multiple commands (fs, dfs, fsck, distcp etc)

export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Xmx512m $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"

#HADOOP_JAVA_PLATFORM_OPTS="-XX:-UsePerfData $HADOOP_JAVA_PLATFORM_OPTS"

# On secure datanodes, user to run the datanode as after dropping privileges.

# This **MUST** be uncommented to enable secure HDFS if using privileged ports

# to provide authentication of data transfer protocol.  This **MUST NOT** be

# defined if SASL is configured for authentication of data transfer protocol

# using non-privileged ports.

export HADOOP_SECURE_DN_USER=${HADOOP_SECURE_DN_USER}

# Where log files are stored.  $HADOOP_HOME/logs by default.

#export HADOOP_LOG_DIR=${HADOOP_LOG_DIR}/$USER

# Where log files are stored in the secure data environment.

export HADOOP_SECURE_DN_LOG_DIR=${HADOOP_LOG_DIR}/${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}

###

# HDFS Mover specific parameters

###

# Specify the JVM options to be used when starting the HDFS Mover.

# These options will be appended to the options specified as HADOOP_OPTS

# and therefore may override any similar flags set in HADOOP_OPTS

#

# export HADOOP_MOVER_OPTS=""

###

# Advanced Users Only!

###

# The directory where pid files are stored. /tmp by default.

# NOTE: this should be set to a directory that can only be written to by

#       the user that will run the hadoop daemons.  Otherwise there is the

#       potential for a symlink attack.

export HADOOP_PID_DIR=${HADOOP_PID_DIR}

export HADOOP_SECURE_DN_PID_DIR=${HADOOP_PID_DIR}

# A string representing this instance of hadoop. $USER by default.

export HADOOP_IDENT_STRING=$USER