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 Chapter 11. Installing Apache WebHCat

This section describes installing and testing Apache WebHCat, which provides a REST interface to Apache HCatalog services like job submission and eventing.

To install WebHCat:

  1. Install the WebHCat RPMs.

  2. Upload the Pig, Hive and Sqoop tarballs to HDFS.

  3. Set directories and permissions.

  4. Modify WebHCat configuration files.

  5. Set up the HDFS user and prepare the WebHCat directories.

  6. Validate the installation.

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