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 (dependencies might be missing from https://github.com/cloudera/hue#development-prerequisites) ## Configure Solr Edit conf/hue.ini: [search] # URL of the Solr Server ##solr_url=http://localhost:1978/solr/ ## Run! $ /usr/share/hue/build/env/bin/supervisor Go to http://localhost:8888/ Please report feeback! ## For enabling file download ## Configure Hadoop Edit hdfs-site.xml: dfs.webhdfs.enable true ## Optional ## Install plug-ins $ cd /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/lib $ ln -s /usr/share/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/java-lib/hue*jar Edit mapred-site.xml: mapred.jobtracker.plugins org.apache.hadoop.thriftfs.ThriftJobTrackerPlugin Comma-separated list of jobtracker plug-ins to be activated.