Install Debezium SQL Server CDC Source Connector

Question

I am following the link below to install the SQL Server CDC connector

https://www.confluent.io/hub/debezium/debezium-connector-sqlserver

But gets the error message

Unable to detect Confluent Platform installation. Specify --component-dir and --worker-configs explicitly.
Error: Invalid options or arguments

This is on my development machine I am trying to set up the connector.

Kafka folder ~/kafka

Kafka plugin folder /usr/local/share/kafka/plugins

I also tried to install it manually by following the link https://docs.confluent.io/home/connect/install.html

but not sure about the plugin.path

OS: Ubuntu 20.04

Can you help

Answer 1

not sure about the plugin.path

Using Confluent hub command sets that for you. As you've already said, it's /usr/local/share/kafka/plugins, so you give that as --component-dir argument

Then you need to find your Kafka Connect property file and give it to --worker-configs