Set Up the MapR Repository: RHEL/CentOS
This section describes how to set up a maprtech.repo
file before
adding a MapR
repository.
About this task
Before upgrading your cluster software, you need to set up or update a
maprtech.repo
file. The baseurl
properties of
the maprtech.repo
specify the URLs of the packages you want to
install. To access the URLs for all release packages, see Packages and Dependencies for MapR Software.
Procedure
-
Change to the
root
user or usesudo
. -
Create a text file called
maprtech.repo
in the/etc/yum.repos.d/
directory with the following content, replacing<version>
with the version of software that you want to install.[maprtech] name=MapR Technologies baseurl=https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/v<version>/redhat/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 protect=1 [maprecosystem] name=MapR Technologies baseurl=https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/MEP-<version>/redhat enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 protect=1
-
If your connection to the Internet is through a proxy server, set the
http_proxy
environment variable before installation.- Method
1:
http_proxy=http://<host>:<port> export http_proxy
- Method 2: Set the value for the
http_proxy
environment variable by adding settings to the/etc/yum.conf
file.proxy=http://<host>:<port> proxy_username=<username> proxy_password=<password>
- Method
1:
-
Download and install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) if you use the
mapr-metrics
service; otherwise, skip this step.- RHEL/CentOS
6.x:
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm
- RHEL/CentOS
7.0
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
- RHEL/CentOS
6.x: