How to set up hadoop environment variables

Question

I am following this page in the official documentation. I also downloaded hadoop 2.2.0 and placed it under $HOME/opt. Now I have this file structure:

$ ls -1 ~/opt/hadoop-2.2.0/
LICENSE.txt
NOTICE.txt
README.txt
bin/
etc/
include/
lib/
libexec/
sbin/
share/

$ ls -1 ~/opt/hadoop-2.2.0/share/hadoop/
common/
hdfs/
httpfs/
mapreduce/
tools/
yarn/

In the page I mentioned above, there is this paragraph:

Assuming you have installed hadoop-common/hadoop-hdfs and exported $HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME, untar hadoop mapreduce tarball and set environment variable $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME to the untarred directory. Set $HADOOP_YARN_HOME the same as $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME.

So, my question is, given my file structure, how should I set up the hadoop environment variables ($HADOOP_COMMON_HOME, $HADOOP_HDFS_HOME, $HADOOP_YARN_HOME, etc)? Thank you very much.

zhutoulala zhutoulala · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-31T00:55:17

You could set them as following, last 2 are not mandatory to get HDFS and YARN working though.

HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HOME/opt/hadoop-2.2.0/
HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HOME/opt/hadoop-2.2.0/share/hadoop/hdfs
HADOOP_YARN_HOME=$HOME/opt/hadoop-2.2.0/share/hadoop/yarn

How to set up hadoop environment variables

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