Now, let's see how to install and configure the Cloudera distribution of Hadoop. There are two options for Cloudera Hadoop installation:
Using the tarball (TAR file)
Cloudera Hadoop tars of CDH4/CDH5 can be downloaded from http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/documentation.html.
Using the package file (RPM on Red Hat distros)
If you use tarball, follow the same method as was previously mentioned for both Ubuntu and Red Hat distros. There are other methods too, which use the .rpm package, which we will discuss now.
In this section, we will see links to download the required RPM packages for installation.
The following is the link to download RPM packages for the CDH4 version of Hadoop:
http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh4/redhat/6/x86_64/cdh/4/RPMS/x86_64/
The following is the link to download RPM packages for the CDH4 version of HBase:
http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh4/redhat/6/x86_64/cdh/4/RPMS/x86_64/
The following are...