Installing Mahout with apt-get, now how do I run the examples?

[#1]

Hi, according to the Cloudera blog, Mahout is now part of CDH. But in the docs it just says to 'sudo apt-get install mahout' with no mention of versions or dependencies.

So I did that, but now I can't even test it because unlike for the tarball install, the examples included have no docs.  You can't use the Mahout docs because those assume a tarball install that gives you things that this package does not.  Is that true? How do you run the examples?  Under /usr/lib/mahout/ there is a mahout-examples-0.7-cdh4.0.jar file, but it has no scripts and there are no docs for it.

Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Thanks for posting. The docs of mahout are bundled in a separate package (to reduce the cruft for people who don't care about downloaded docs). For that you can install the mahout-doc package using 'sudo apt-get install mahout-doc'.

The contents should go under /usr/share/doc/mahout* and you should be able to pick it up from there.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

And, good luck!

[#3]

Great, that works, thanks! BTW you might consider getting someone there to change docs like this page to reflect that: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/4.3.0/CDH4-Installation-Guide/cd...

[#4]

Thanks, will do!