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Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

ftrg — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 07:13:49 GMT

Hi,

I wanted to install Apache Nifi 1.16.3 or 1.17.0 on my Ubuntu system. However, I am not able to find the required tar files from the Apache Downloads page.

Can someone please drop links where I can see the nifi-1.17.0-bin.tar.gz/nifi-1.16.3-bin.tar.gz to install in ubuntu 18.04?

Re: Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

araujo — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:56:29 GMT

@ftrg ,

You don't need the tar.gz file. You can install using the -bin.zip file (https://dlcdn.apache.org/nifi/1.17.0/nifi-1.17.0-bin.zip).

Just download this file and unzip it with:

unzip nifi-1.17.0-bin.zip

Cheers,

André

Re: Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

steven-matison — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 17:32:40 GMT

@ftrg The tar.gz was removed from 1.17.0

You can find 1.16.3 here:

https://archive.apache.org/dist/nifi/1.16.3/

Re: Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

LorencH — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:16:47 GMT

The problem with zip instead of tar gz is that uzip does not support folder and file permissions. Therefore incorrect permissions may be set for sensitive files in nifi directories; conf files for example that contain passwords have read for all. This creates additional manual steps to correct all the permissions. Is there a reason why we switched away from .gz?

Re: Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

araujo — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:51:11 GMT

Hi @LorencH ,

I'm of the opinion that if security is a concern (as it should be for any deployment) you should never rely on the permissions that come within the tarball. Your deployment procedure, automated or not, should always extract the files and explicitly "chown" and "chmod" the appropriate files to set the desired ownership and permissions.

I don't know of the reasons to eliminate the tarball, though.

Cheers,

André