Installation and Configuration

For all the installations discussed in this book, we are following some basic conventions and assumptions:

1. The user is assumed to be a non-root, but sudo user configured with no password.

1. All downloads are assumed to be downloaded into a single directory, referred to as ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}. This should be configured as an environment variable using the following command and the same must be added into ~/.bashrc:

export DOWNLOAD_DIR=<path of download directory>

1. All the installations are assumed to done in user directories, except for RPMs, hence any system level changes, package installations, and so on will have to be done using sudo.

Now let's get our hands dirty with some code. This section details each and every point as a step for easy reading and understanding. Let's dig in.