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          Hue - Hadoop UI
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Instructions to install the tarball release of Hue are available
in the manual from http://gethue.com.

If you're impatient, these are the key steps.  Please check the full manual
for more details.


Install
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## Install in any directory, e.g. /home/hue, /usr/share, /home/my_user
PREFIX=/usr/share make install

## If you don't have the permissions, you will need to 'sudo' the command and
## make sure that the 'hue' user has write access to the 'logs' directory and 'desktop/desktop.db'.

## Run!
${PREFIX}/hue/build/env/bin/supervisor


Configure Hadoop
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## Install JobTracker plug-in
cd /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/lib
ln -s ${PREFIX}/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/java-lib/hue*jar

## Configure Hadoop
Edit hdfs-site.xml:

<property>
  <name>dfs.webhdfs.enable</name>
  <value>true</value>
</property>

Edit mapred-site.xml:

<property>
  <name>mapred.jobtracker.plugins</name>
  <value>org.apache.hadoop.thriftfs.ThriftJobTrackerPlugin</value>
  <description>Comma-separated list of jobtracker plug-ins to be activated.
  </description>
</property>


Problems?
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Search or ask questions on the forum and http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user

Some packages might be required during the 'make install': https://github.com/cloudera/hue#development-prerequisites)

Download a pre-built packaged version of Hue on http://gethue.com