--- title: How to build Hue on Ubuntu author: admin type: post date: 2014-09-11T21:10:46+00:00 url: /how-to-build-hue-on-ubuntu-14-04-trusty/ sf_thumbnail_type: - none sf_thumbnail_link_type: - link_to_post sf_detail_type: - none sf_page_title: - 1 sf_page_title_style: - standard sf_no_breadcrumbs: - 1 sf_page_title_bg: - none sf_page_title_text_style: - light sf_background_image_size: - cover sf_social_sharing: - 1 sf_sidebar_config: - left-sidebar sf_left_sidebar: - Sidebar-2 sf_right_sidebar: - Sidebar-1 sf_caption_position: - caption-right sf_remove_promo_bar: - 1 slide_template: - default ampforwp-amp-on-off: - default categories: - Dev / API --- _Last Update: January 24th 2018_   This guide takes 14.04 but it should be almost the same for 16 or 17. Due to a [package bug,][1] we got quite a few questions about how to build Hue consistently. Here is a step by step guide about how to get up and running. First, make sure that you are indeed on the 14.04:
> lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Release: 14.04

Codename: trusty

Then install git and fetch Hue [source code][2] from github:
sudo apt-get install git

git clone https://github.com/cloudera/hue.git

cd hue

Then some [development packages][3] need to be installed:
apt-get install python2.7-dev \

make \

libkrb5-dev \

libxml2-dev \

libffi-dev \

libxslt-dev \

libsqlite3-dev \

libssl-dev \

libldap2-dev \

python-pip

You can also try this one line:
sudo apt-get install ant gcc g++ libkrb5-dev libffi-dev libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libsqlite3-dev libtidy-0.99-0 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev make libldap2-dev maven python-dev python-setuptools libgmp3-dev
You will also need the ‘maven’ package. You could install it with apt-get but it is also recommended to install from a [maven3 tarball][4] in order to avoid to pull a lot of dependencies. Then it is time to build Hue. Just issue the ‘make apps’ command. You will hit the Ubuntu package problem the first time if you are using a Hue version [smaller than 3.8][5]:
- Creating virtual environment at /root/hue/build/env

python2.7 /root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py \

-qq -no-site-packages /root/hue/build/env

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 1504, in 

main()

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 547, in main

use_distribute=options.use_distribute)

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 637, in create_environment

install_setuptools(py_executable, unzip=unzip_setuptools)

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 379, in install_setuptools

_install_req(py_executable, unzip)

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 355, in _install_req

cwd=cwd)

File "/root/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtual-bootstrap.py", line 608, in call_subprocess

% (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))

OSError: Command /root/hue/build/env/bin/python2.7 -c "#!python

\"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo...

We use one of the workaround:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/plat-*/_sysconfigdata_nd.py /usr/lib/python2.7/

Links on detail its cause. If you don’t have Oracle Java 7 installed the build will then stop with:
[INFO] ------------------------

[INFO] BUILD FAILURE

[INFO] ------------------------

[INFO] Total time: 1:20.498s

[INFO] Finished at: Wed Sep 10 18:53:55 PDT 2014

[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/116M

[INFO] ------------------------

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project hue-plugins: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.cloudera.hue:hue-plugins:jar:3.6.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.7 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar -> [Help 1]

[ERROR]

[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.

[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

[ERROR]

[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:

[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

make[2]: \*** [/root/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/java-lib/hue-plugins-3.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory \`/root/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop'

make[1]: \*** [.recursive-env-install/libs/hadoop] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory \`/root/hue/desktop'

make: \*** [desktop] Error 2

To fix is install this packages:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default

**Note** ‘asciidoc‘ is also required if you want to build a tarball release at some point with ‘make prod’. If not you will get this error:
make[1]: Leaving directory \`/root/hue/apps'

make[1]: Entering directory \`/root/hue/docs'

- Generating sdk doc at /root/hue/build/docs/sdk/sdk.html

- Generated /root/hue/build/docs/sdk/sdk.html

- Generating release notes at /root/hue/build/docs/release-notes

/bin/bash: line 1: a2x: command not found

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/bin/bash: line 1: a2x: command not found

mv: cannot stat ‘release-notes/*.html’: No such file or directory

And that’s it! At the end of the build:
=== Installing app at oozie

=== oozie v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at proxy

=== proxy v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at useradmin

=== useradmin v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at impala

=== impala v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at pig

=== pig v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at search

=== search v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at hbase

=== hbase v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at sqoop

=== sqoop v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at zookeeper

=== zookeeper v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at rdbms

=== rdbms v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at spark

=== spark v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Installing app at security

=== security v.3.6.0 is already installed

=== Saved registry at /home/romain/projects/hue/app.reg

=== Saved /home/romain/projects/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hue.pth

Running '/home/romain/projects/hue/build/env/bin/hue syncdb -noinput' with None

Syncing...

Creating tables ...

Installing custom SQL ...

Installing indexes ...

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Synced:

> django.contrib.auth

> django_openid_auth

> django.contrib.contenttypes

> django.contrib.sessions

> django.contrib.sites

> django.contrib.admin

> django_extensions

> south

> indexer

> about

> filebrowser

> help

> impala

> jobbrowser

> metastore

> proxy

> rdbms

> zookeeper

Not synced (use migrations):

- desktop

- beeswax

- hbase

- jobsub

- oozie

- pig

- search

- spark

- sqoop

- useradmin

- security

(use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these)

Running '/home/romain/projects/hue/build/env/bin/hue migrate -merge' with None

Running migrations for desktop:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for desktop.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for beeswax:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for beeswax.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for hbase:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for hbase.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for jobsub:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for jobsub.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for oozie:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for oozie.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for pig:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for pig.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for search:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for search.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for spark:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for spark.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for sqoop:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for sqoop.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Running migrations for useradmin:

- Nothing to migrate.

- Loading initial data for useradmin.

Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

? You have no migrations for the 'security' app. You might want some.

make[1]: Leaving directory \`/home/romain/projects/hue/apps'

Just start the development server:
./build/env/bin/hue runserver

and visit ! [][6] After this, if the cluster is distributed, it is time to [configure Hue][7] to point to each [Hadoop service][8]! As usual feel free to send feedback on the hue-user list or @gethue! [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/1115466 [2]: https://github.com/cloudera/hue [3]: https://github.com/cloudera/hue#development-prerequisites [4]: http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi [5]: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/HUE-2654 [6]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2014/09/hue-login.png [7]: https://gethue.com/yahoo-hadoop-meetup-integrate-hue-with-your-hadoop-cluster/ [8]: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH5/latest/CDH5-Installation-Guide/cdh5ig_cdh_hue_configure.html