This is the documentation for CDH 5.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Installing the Flume RPM or Debian Packages

Installing the Flume RPM and Debian packages is more convenient than installing the Flume tarball because the packages:

  • Handle dependencies
  • Provide for easy upgrades
  • Automatically install resources to conventional locations
  • Handle daemon startup and shutdown.

The Flume RPM and Debian packages consist of three packages:

  • flume-ng — Everything you need to run Flume
  • flume-ng-agent — Handles starting and stopping the Flume agent as a service
  • flume-ng-doc — Flume documentation

All Flume installations require the common code provided by flume-ng.

  Important:

If you have not already done so, install Cloudera's yum, zypper/YaST or apt repository before using the following commands to install Flume. For instructions, see CDH 5 Installation.

To install Flume on Ubuntu and other Debian systems:

$ sudo apt-get install flume-ng

To install Flume On Red Hat-compatible systems:

$ sudo yum install flume-ng

To install Flume on SLES systems:

$ sudo zypper install flume-ng

You may also want to enable automatic start-up on boot. To do this, install the Flume agent.

To install the Flume agent so Flume starts automatically on boot on Ubuntu and other Debian systems:

$ sudo apt-get install flume-ng-agent

To install the Flume agent so Flume starts automatically on boot on Red Hat-compatible systems:

$ sudo yum install flume-ng-agent

To install the Flume agent so Flume starts automatically on boot on SLES systems:

$ sudo zypper install flume-ng-agent

To install the documentation:

To install the documentation on Ubuntu and other Debian systems:

$ sudo apt-get install flume-ng-doc

To install the documentation on Red Hat-compatible systems:

$ sudo yum install flume-ng-doc

To install the documentation on SLES systems:

$ sudo zypper install flume-ng-doc
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