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Variant for Ubuntu

Open aawadall opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

My main machine is running Ubuntu 17.10, I could not run the VM described in course, so I had a few alternatives:

  1. Install Docker on my machine and get the cloudera image (too slow)
  2. Rent an Ubuntu VM on Google Cloud, and install Docker then get cloudera image (too expensive)
  3. Rent a Centos VM on Google Cloud, and install Cloudera packages on it (Confusing commands compared to Ubuntu, and no GUI available for third exercise) it there a way I could install those examples of a Debian based machine?

thanks

aawadall avatar Nov 20 '17 01:11 aawadall

Why can't you install VirtualBox + the Cloudera VM on your machine?

crawld avatar Nov 20 '17 02:11 crawld

@crawld it seems to be an issue with my machine configuration (3 years old) and Ubuntu version not supported by Oracle Virtual Box. I could not find the appropriate binaries, it broke some packages when I attempted to install it

aawadall avatar Nov 20 '17 02:11 aawadall

Looks like no official VirtualBox package for Ubuntu 17.10 yet:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/978203/unable-to-run-virtualbox-after-fresh-install-of-ubuntu-17-10

If you don't want to wait for the Ubuntu 17.10 package, Cloudera does provide VMWare, KVM, etc., VM images. You could try one of these, but the Coursera hands-on exercises have not been tested on these.

crawld avatar Nov 20 '17 02:11 crawld