Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting up the Mahout development environment

In this recipe, we are going to take a look at how to set up the Mahout development environment.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster.

How to do it...

Setting up the Mahout environment is very easy:

1. To start with, we first need to download the latest version of Mahout from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/mahout/.
2. I am going to use version 0.11.1 ,which can be found at http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.11.1/apache-mahout-distribution-0.11.1.tar.gz.
3. Next, unzip the tar and rename the folder as Mahout for simplicity's sake:

   sudo tar  -xzf  apache-mahout-distribution-0.11.1.tar.gz
   sudo mv apache-mahout-distribution-0.11.1 mahout
   

4. To use the Mahout commands from ...