Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Apache Flume: Distributed Log Collection for Hadoop

You're reading from  Apache Flume: Distributed Log Collection for Hadoop

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782167914
Pages 108 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Downloading Flume


Let's download Flume from http://flume.apache.org/. Look for the download link in the side navigation. You'll see two compressed tar archives, available along with checksum and gpg signature files used to verify the archives. Instructions for verifying the download are on the website so I won't cover them here. Checking the checksum file contents against the actual checksum verifies that the download was not corrupted. Checking the signature file validates that all the files you are downloading (including the checksum and signature) came from Apache and not someplace nefarious. Do you really need to verify your downloads? In general it is a good idea and it is recommended by Apache that you do so. If you choose not to, I won't tell.

The binary distribution archive has bin in the name and the source archive is marked with src. The source archive contains just the Flume source code. The binary distribution is much larger because it contains not just the Flume source and the...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}