Flume is included in the HDP repository, but it is not installed automatically as part of the standard HDP installation process.
You must have at least core Hadoop installed on your system. See Configuring the Remote Repositories for more information.
Verify the HDP repositories are available:
yum list flumeThe output should list at least one Flume package similar to the following:
flume.noarch 1.5.2.2.2.6.0-2800.el6 HDP-2.2If yum responds with "Error: No matching package to list" as shown below, yum cannot locate a matching RPM. This can happen if the repository hosting the HDP RPMs is unavailable, or has been disabled. Follow the instructions at Configuring the Remote Repositories to configure either a public or private repository before proceeding.
Error: No matching package to list.You must have set up your
JAVA_HOMEenvironment variable per your operating system. See JDK Requirements for instructions on installing JDK.
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Verify the HDP repositories are available for your Flume installation by entering |
To install Flume, from a terminal window type:
For RHEL or CentOS:
yum install flume yum install flume-node #This installs init scripts
For SLES:
zypper install flume zypper install flume-node #This installs init scripts
or
The installation process automatically sets up the appropriate flume user and flume group in the operating system.
