Apache Flink

Installing Apache Flink

Building Apache Flink is very easy yet it took approximately 30 minutes.

Steps for installing apache Flink on Mac/ubuntu

Steps are:

1. Unix-like environment such as Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin.

2. Git

3. Make sure you have java installed, check it in terminal using

   java -version
   

4. Maven is used as build tool, if you do not have maven install it using

   brew install maven
   

Unix-like environment (We use Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin) is required

1. Go to this link and download the source version. You can also clone the source form git by entering following command in your terminal.

   git clone https://github.com/apache/flink
   

2. cd to the downloaded file and then unpack it by using

   tar xzf *.tgz
   

where * is filename. Alternatively in Mac you can also double click the tar file and it will be un-tared and unzipped.

1. Then cd to un-tarred file and enter following command in terminal

   mvn clean install -DskipTests
   

Let build will start and will take almost 30 minutes and finally if everything is done successfully, then you will see following message.

1. In my system the Flink is installed at the following location.

/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/.m2/repository/org/apache/flink

Success

Congrats, we have successfully build Apache-Flink on our system.

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