Installing Cloudera Search without Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Search for CDH 5 is included with CDH 5.
You can also install Cloudera Search manually in some situations; for example, if you have an existing installation to which you want to add Search.
- For general information about using repositories to install or upgrade Cloudera software, see Understanding Custom Installation Solutions.
- For instructions on installing or upgrading CDH, see Installing the Latest CDH 5 Release.
- For CDH 5 repository locations and client .repo files, which include Cloudera Search, see Version and Download Information.
Cloudera Search includes the following packages:
| Package Name | Description |
|---|---|
| solr | Solr |
| solr-server | Platform specific service script for starting, stopping, or restart Solr. |
| solr-doc | Cloudera Search documentation. |
| solr-mapreduce | Tools to index documents using MapReduce. |
| solr-crunch | Tools to index documents using Crunch. |
| search | Examples, Contrib, and Utility code and data. |
Before You Begin
The installation instructions assume that the sudo command is configured on the hosts where you are installing Cloudera Search. If sudo is not configured, use the root user (superuser) to configure Cloudera Search.
Installing Solr Packages
This topic describes how to complete a new installation of Solr packages. To upgrade an existing installation, see Upgrading Cloudera Search.
$ sudo yum install solr-server
$ sudo apt-get install solr-server
$ sudo zypper install solr-server
$ rpm -ql solr-server solr
$ dpkg -L solr-server solr
Cloudera Search packages are configured according to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Next, enable the server daemons you want to use with Hadoop. You can also enable Java-based client access by adding the JAR files in /usr/lib/solr/ and /usr/lib/solr/lib/ to your Java class path.