Cassandra can also be installed from a downloaded Tarball. Navigate to the Apache Cassandra project download page[2] at http://cassandra.apache.org/download/, and look for the most recent release. If you require a specific, older version of Cassandra, you can find a link to the archived releases there as well.
Once you have downloaded the Tarball, put it in the directory where you intend to install it. For this example, we will download Apache Cassandra 3.10, create a local directory on the system, and move it there:
sudo mkdir /localsudo chown $USER:$USER /localcd /localmv ~/Downloads/apache-cassandra-3.10-bin.tar.gz
In this example we change ownership to the current user with the $USER environment variable, and this ...
