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Hue - Hadoop UI
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Instructions to install the tarball release of Hue are available
in the manual from http://gethue.com.
If you're impatient, these are the key steps. Please check the full manual
for more details.
Install
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## Install in any directory, e.g. /home/hue, /usr/share, /home/my_user
PREFIX=/usr/share make install
## If you don't have the permissions, you will need to 'sudo' the command and
## make sure that the 'hue' user has write access to the 'logs' directory and 'desktop/desktop.db'.
## e.g. sudo chown -R hue:hue /usr/local/hue
## Run!
${PREFIX}/hue/build/env/bin/supervisor
Configure Hadoop
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## Install JobTracker plug-in
cd /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/lib
ln -s ${PREFIX}/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.
Problems?
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Search or ask questions on the forum and http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user
Some packages might be required during the 'make install': https://github.com/cloudera/hue#development-prerequisites)
Download a pre-built packaged version (apt-get/yum install...) of Hue on http://gethue.com