Unpack Hadoop Installation
The next step is to unpack the downloaded and copied package.
To unpack the package follow these steps:
- Open a new Cygwin window.
- After the new Cygwin window appears, execute the following command:
tar -xzf hadoop-0.19.1.tar.gz
This will start unpacking the Hadoop distribution. After several minutes you should see a new Cygwin prompt again as shown in the screenshot below:
- When you see the new prompt, execute the following command:
ls -l
This command will list the contents of your home directory. You should see a newly created directory called hadoop-0.19.1
- Next execute the following commands:
cd hadoop-0.19.1
ls -l
If you get output similar to the following, everything was unpacked correctly and you can go to the next step.
