You are right Paul, it is missing a lot. Found the problem in the meantime. On a fresh HDP 2.4 Zeppelin is not installed but there are some things prepared already like a symlink in /usr/hdp/current/zeppelin-server -> /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/zeppelin/ (pointing to a non-existant folder) When you follow the steps the Python scripts at some point do a 'yum install zeppelin' but in the meantime with things progressing it wil install version 2.4.2.0-258 WITHOUT updating the symlink properly. Besides that the scripted install is fine. Tried to make the script install version 2.4.0.0-169 of Zeppelin but didn't succeed, so in the end al it took was updating the symlink: ln -f -s /usr/hdp/2.4.2.0-258/zeppelin/ /usr/hdp/current/zeppelin-server If you then rerun all from Ambari it should be fine and you'll have the newest Zeppelin installed. ... View more