Debian by default does not allow non-free software, which you need if you want to use Sun/Oracles java. I wanted to use apt-get to install the latest version of Cassandra, so after installing debian I first updated my apt source list. I used git and easy_install to install pycassa.
You can obviously use the editor of your choice, I like vi. I am also lazy and get tired of sudo'ing to root all the time, so I just su to root normally.
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add non-free at the end of the lines so they look like this:
linux/debian/ squeeze main non-free
add these lines to the end of the file. You can choice stable instead of unstable if you don't want the latest version (at the time of this writing 0.8.0~rc1 was the latest)
#Cassandra DB
deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian unstable main
deb-src http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian unstable main
Once you are done editing the file, then it's time to get the apache keys:
wget http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/KEYS -O- | apt-key add -
Now it is time to get a lot of software. Using apt-get get doing the following:
Update the cached database first:
apt-get update
then:
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk libmx4j-java python2.6-dev dpkg-dev python-setuptools git git-doc subversion
I choose to use the sun/oracle java, so I will update my default java. (this only matters if openjava is installed)
update-alternatives --config java
Now it is time to install Cassandra
apt-get install cassandra
I don't know if I should need to do this, but every install I have done I have had to make this link.
ln /usr/share/cassandra/jamm-0.2.2.jar /lib/jamm-0.2.2.jar
To get the Cassandra extra's running jna.jar and the mx counters do this:
wget -O /usr/share/cassandra/jna.jar http://java.net/projects/jna/sources/svn/content/trunk/jnalib/dist/jna.jar?rev=1194
change directory to a tmp or home
cd
wget -O mx4j-3.0.2.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mx4j/MX4J%20Binary/3.0.2/mx4j-3.0.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf mx4j-3.0.2.tar.gz mx4j-3.0.2/lib/mx4j-tools.jar
cp mx4j-3.0.2/lib/mx4j-tools.jar /usr/share/cassandra
Now I install pycassa
easy_install pycassa
easy_install thrift05
Ok, at this point you should be good to go. I use:
service cassandra stop && service cassandra start
to stop and restart the service. /var/log/cassandra contains the logs so you can check to see if everything is running correctly.
After stopping and starting, and assuming everything is going ok you can do a quick test.
nodetool -h localhost ring
I hope this helps.
For more information see the Cassandra documention, Datastax, Pycassa docs. If you need help getting stress.py running see my other post.
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