Compile / Install Hue from Source Code on CentOS6

[#1]

Installing Hue can be tricky as the latest version Hue 4.1.0 is available only as source code and Compiling it requires a lot of dependencies and development libraries for which there is very little information available on the Internet

The best document that I could find as reference was Hue 4.1.0 Installation Guide, though there are a few packages missing in the doc

After series of trial and error came up with the below steps to Compile / Install Hue successfully

• Install JDK, Hue dependencies, and development Libraries

$ sudo yum -y update
$ sudo yum install -y git gcc libxml2-devel libxslt-devel cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi mysql-devel python-devel python-setuptools sqlite-devel ant gcc-c++ *sasl* krb5-devel libtidy openldap-devel wget libffi-devel gmp-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk

• Install Apache Maven from public Fedora repository

$ sudo wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
$ sudo sed -i s/\$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
$ sudo yum install -y apache-maven

• Clone Hue Git Repository

git clone https://github.com/cloudera/hue.git

• Build Hue from Source

# Configure $PREFIX with the path where you want to install Hue
$ cd hue
$ PREFIX=/usr/share make install 

The above commands were executed and tested on

OS : CentOS release 6.9 (Final)
Hue : Version 4.1
Date : 21/Feb/2018

[#2]

It might be beneficial to stuff this in a Docker container and run

make prod tarball

Then, you can run the Docker container for the respective environment, and simply copy the tarball to external clusters.