1.2.3. Installing Hadoop on Redhat Systems

Repo	Name	Release Date	Tarballs	Apt	Yum
Stable	`CDH1`	`March 2009`	/cdh/stable	/debian	/redhat/cdh/stable
Testing	`CDH2`	`August 2009`	/cdh/testing	/debian	/redhat/cdh/testing

1.2.3. Installing Hadoop on Redhat Systems

If you are running on a Redhat-based system, you can easily download our software using yum. You can also just download the RPMs directory from http://archive.cloudera.com/redhat/cdh.

Setting up Yum access

Add the Yum repository of your choice. Download the cloudera-stable.repo or cloudera-testing.repo file and drop it ito your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
Update the Yum package index. Simple run:
```
sudo yum update yum
```

Find and install packages. For example:

yum search hadoop
yum install hadoop-0.20


1.2.2. Installing Hadoop on Debian Systems		1.3. Distribution Releases