This is a how to on installing the Cloudera Flume project from tarball and Ubuntu package

Installing Flume from tarball

• sudo mkdir /var/log/flume


• cd /usr/local


• sudo wget http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume-0.9.3-cdh3u0.tar.gz


• sudo tar -xzvf flume-0.9.3-cdh3u0.tar.gz


• sudo ln -s flume-0.9.3-cdh3u0 flume


• cd /usr/local/flume

TO START THE MASTER

export FLUME_CONF_DIR=/usr/local/flume/conf; export FLUME_HOME=/usr/local/flume; sudo -E bin/flume-daemon.sh start master

TO START THE NODE

export FLUME_CONF_DIR=/usr/local/flume/conf; export FLUME_HOME=/usr/local/flume; sudo -E bin/flume-daemon.sh start node

Installing Flume from a Deb apt-get package

check the ubuntu version you're running:

lsb_release -c



add the repository for the cloudera distro

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list

paste the two lines in below

deb http://archive.cloudera.com/debian jaunty-cdh3 contrib

deb-src http://archive.cloudera.com/debian jaunty-cdh3 contrib

add the private key

curl -s http://archive.cloudera.com/debian/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

update your packages:

sudo apt-get update

install flume:

sudo apt-get install flume

GET MASTER UP

setup and start the flume master server:

sudo apt-get install flume-master

to restart the master:

/etc/init.d/flume-master restart

you should be able to access the master node as such:

http://yourhost:35871/flumemaster.jsp