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Subject: Re: The most newbie question ever
From: Hitesh Shah <hitesh@hortonworks.com>
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Also, BUILDING.txt can be found at the top level directory of the =
checked out code.=20

-- Hitesh=20

On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Hitesh Shah wrote:

> Assuming you have checked out the hadoop source code into =
/home/keithomas/hadoop-common/ , you need to run the maven command in =
that directory and not from /home/keithomas/  =20
>=20
> -- Hitesh=20
>=20
>=20
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Keith Thomas wrote:
>=20
>> Thank you for your help Mayank. I managed to google for BUILDING.TXT =
and discovered I need maven3. I installed maven3.
>>=20
>> When I enter the command on the getting started link you sent me this =
happens,
>>=20
>> keithomas@ubuntu:~$ mvn clean install -DskipTests
>> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] Total time: 0.119s
>> [INFO] Finished at: Thu Mar 21 17:14:39 PDT 2013
>> [INFO] Final Memory: 3M/247M
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but =
there is no POM in this directory (/home/keithomas). Please verify you =
invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
>>=20
>> and when I enter the command you kindly sent this happens,
>>=20
>> keithomas@ubuntu:~$ mvn package -Pdist -DskipTests -Dtar
>> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] Total time: 0.114s
>> [INFO] Finished at: Thu Mar 21 17:15:11 PDT 2013
>> [INFO] Final Memory: 3M/247M
>> [INFO] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [WARNING] The requested profile "dist" could not be activated because =
it does not exist.
>> [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but =
there is no POM in this directory (/home/keithomas). Please verify you =
invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
>> [ERROR]=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Mayank Bansal <mayank@apache.org> =
wrote:
>> There is a BUILDING.txt
>>=20
>> $ mvn package -Pdist -DskipTests -Dtar
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Mayank
>>=20
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Keith Thomas =
<keith.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the great link but sorry it looks like this is going to =
be a long
>>> process.
>>>=20
>>> Step 1 is: mvn clean install -DskipTests
>>>=20
>>> First of all my OS tells me I need maven but it gives me two =
choices, maven
>>> and maven 2.
>>>=20
>>> Is there any pre-req info for Hadoop? I've previously guessed I =
should
>>> installed open jdk 6. This time I guess maven 2. The result of the =
'clean
>>> install' is an error,
>>>=20
>>> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
>>> [INFO]
>>> =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [INFO] Cannot execute mojo: clean. It requires a project with an =
existing
>>> pom.xml, but the build is not using one.
>>>=20
>>> :(
>>>=20
>>> Looking ahead the next instruction is to CD into a folder that does =
not
>>> exist on my machine,
>>>=20
>>> cd hadoop-mapreduce-project
>>>=20
>>> A little after that the instructions note I must have installed =
version
>>> 2.4.1 or greater. 2.4.1 of what?
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> I feel I am missing the point somewhere :(
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Mayank Bansal <mayank@apache.org> =
wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.0.3-alpha/
>>>>=20
>>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Keith Thomas =
<keith.thomas@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> After three years in a non-Hadoop Windows wilderness I am lucky =
enough
>>>>> to
>>>>> return and wow I find Hadoop 2.0 .... Brilliant!
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I quickly navigated here:
>>>>>   http://hadoop.apache.org/index.html#Getting+Started
>>>>>=20
>>>>> and eagerly downloaded 2.0.3 alpha. Hmmm, now what? I see the =
following
>>>>> sections,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Getting Started
>>>>>=20
>>>>> To get started, begin here:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Learn about Hadoop by reading the documentation.
>>>>> Download Hadoop from the release page.
>>>>> Discuss Hadoop on the mailing list.
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> but I can't find installation instructions. I look for the latest
>>>>> version of
>>>>> my Tom White collection and the latest book is a year old and is
>>>>> unlikely to
>>>>> be current enough to be of use to someone as out of date as me. =
Please
>>>>> help
>>>>> me to get started. So far I've only managed to download and unzip =
2.0.3
>>>>> and
>>>>> to install open jdk 6.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Many thanks for your patience.
>>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>=20
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