Bigdata Hadoop

Installing Apache Flume on Ubuntu

Bhavesh

System Requirements:

  1. Java Runtime Environment – Java 1.8 or later

  2. Memory – Sufficient memory for configurations used by sources, channels or sinks

  3. Disk Space – Sufficient disk space for configurations used by channels or sinks

  4. Directory Permissions – Read/Write permissions for directories used by agent

The first step is to create a folder Flume:

Make flume directory in /home/dataengineer/

mkdir flume

cd flume

We need to go to the website  https://flume.apache.org/ and click on download.

A new webpage will get open click on  apache-flume-1.11.0-bin.tar.gz

A new webpage will get open https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/flume/1.11.0/apache-flume-1.11.0-bin.tar.gz  and copy the link shown to you.

Type the below command

wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/flume/1.11.0/apache-flume-1.11.0-bin.tar.gz

You will be able to see the files are downloaded

Unzip the file

Listing the files

Checking the flume version

By Bhavesh