How to install and configure apache flume? [closed]

Question

Am new in the Apache Flume. I need to install the flume on top of the HDFS cluster environment. I did Google it, all are saying using the cloudera distribution but I need to install and configure from the source.

So can anyone please suggest me, where to start and how to customize the flume agent and sink services?

Answer 1

I have just installed Apache Flume 1.3 on Ubuntu.

You need to download the binary zip for your OS, extract it and create a config file which is similar to properties file in Java.

The installation and running of agents is a dumb/easy process, just read this

Answer 2

installation steps

#step1
goto http://flume.apache.org/download.html

#click following link
apache-flume-1.4.0-bin.tar.gz

http://apache.mesi.com.ar/flume/1.4.0/apache-flume-1.4.0-bin.tar.gz

#Download apache-flume by double clicking on the above link

tar -xvzf   apache-flume-1.4.0-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-flume-1.4.0-bin.tar.gz flume
chown -R hduser:hadoop flume

#go to flume conf  path

../../flume/conf
vi  flume-env.sh.template

#mention  JAVA Path
#mantion flume Classpath