Instructions to install the tarball release of Hue are available in the manual from the website where you downloaded Hue. If you're impatient, these are the key steps. Please check the full manual for more details. ## Install $ PREFIX=/usr/share make install ## Install plug-ins $ cd /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/lib $ ln -s /usr/share/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/java-lib/hue*jar ## Configure Hadoop Edit hdfs-site.xml: dfs.webhdfs.enable true Edit mapred-site.xml: mapred.jobtracker.plugins org.apache.hadoop.thriftfs.ThriftJobTrackerPlugin Comma-separated list of jobtracker plug-ins to be activated. ## Run! $ /usr/share/hue/build/env/bin/supervisor