Setup Mahout

Mahout is a Scalable machine learning and data mining library. This post introduce how to setup Mahout

1. Setup Mahout by checking out Mahout from GitHub

   su - root
   cd /opt
   git clone https://github.com/apache/mahout.git mahout
   chown -R hadoop /opt/mahout
   

2. Environment Variables for Mahout

   export MAHOUT_HOME=/path/to/mahout
   export MAHOUT_LOCAL=true # for running standalone on your dev machine, unset MAHOUT_LOCAL for running on a cluster
   # if you are running on Spark you will also need $SPARK_HOME
   

3. Reload .bash_profile

   source $HOME/.bash_profile