Installing Cloudera Director Client

To install Cloudera Director client, perform the following tasks.

  1. Download the Cloudera Director by running the correct command for your distribution.

    • For RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and Oracle 6:

      wget http://archive.cloudera.com/director/redhat/6/x86_64/director/cloudera-director.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudera-director.repo

    • For RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Oracle 5:

      wget http://archive.cloudera.com/director/redhat/5/x86_64/director/cloudera-director.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudera-director.repo

    • For Debian:

      wget http://archive.cloudera.com/director/debian/wheezy/amd64/director/cloudera-director.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera-director.list

    • For SLES:

      zypper addrepo -f http://archive.cloudera.com/director/sles/11/x86_64/director/cloudera-director.repo

    • For Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin):

      wget http://archive.cloudera.com/director/ubuntu/precise/amd64/director/cloudera-director.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera-director.list

    • For Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr):

      wget http://archive.cloudera.com/director/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/director/cloudera-director.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera-director.list
  2. Add the signing key.

    • For RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and Oracle 6 this step is not required. Continue to the next step.

    • For RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Oracle 5 this step is not required. Continue to the next step.

    • For Debian, run the following command:

      curl -s http://archive.cloudera.com/director/debian/wheezy/amd64/director/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

    • For SLES this step is not required. Continue to the next step.

    • For Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), run the following command:

      curl -s http://archive.cloudera.com/director/ubuntu/precise/amd64/director/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

    • For Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), run the following command:

      curl -s http://archive.cloudera.com/director/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/director/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
  3. Install Cloudera Director client by running the correct command for your distribution.

    • For RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and Oracle 6:

      yum install cloudera-director-client

    • For RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Oracle 5:

      yum install cloudera-director-client

    • For Debian:

      apt-get install cloudera-director-client

    • For SLES:

      zypper install cloudera-director-client

    • For Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin):

      apt-get install cloudera-director-client

    • For Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr):

      apt-get install cloudera-director-client
You are now ready to configure the Cloudera Director Client.