Installing the Flume Tarball

The Flume tarball is a self-contained package containing everything needed to use Flume on a Unix-like system. To install Flume from the tarball, you unpack it in the appropriate directory.

To install the Flume tarball on Linux-based systems:

1. Run the following commands, replacing the (component_version) with the current version numbers for Flume and CDH.

   $ cd /usr/local/lib
   $ sudo tar -zxvf <path_to_flume-ng-(Flume_version)-cdh(CDH_version).tar.gz>
   $ sudo mv flume-ng-(Flume_version)-cdh(CDH_version) flume-ng

   For example,

   $ cd /usr/local/lib
   $ sudo tar -zxvf <path_to_flume-ng-1.4.0-cdh5.0.0.tar.gz>
   $ sudo mv flume-ng-1.4.0-cdh5.0.0 flume-ng

2. To complete the configuration of a tarball installation, you must set your PATH variable to include the bin/ subdirectory of the directory where you installed Flume. For example:

   $ export PATH=/usr/local/lib/flume-ng/bin:$PATH