Installing Apache Mesos on CentOS or RHEL

Question

I tried to install the latest release tarball of Mesos on CentOS 6.4 with no luck. It ended up in all sorts of failures in trying to find jvm & jni bindings. Is there any instructions on how to install Mesos on RHEL or CentOS ?

Answer 1

I couldn't find any instructions around so I thought I would troubleshoot all through my way and thought of documenting it here so it can save your time.

First things first, load your CentOS box with essential build tools to get started

$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development tools"

Get Java and python dependencies installed

$ sudo yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64  java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 python python-devel libcurl libcurl-devel

Get the latest Mesos tarball

$ wget http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/apache/mesos/0.13.0/mesos-0.13.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf mesos-0.13.0.tar.gz
$ cd mesos-0.13.0

Before you can build Mesos, you need to set correct JAVA binding paths

$ export  JAVA_HOME=/usr
$ export  JAVA_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64/server -R/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64/server -ljvm"
$ export  JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0/include -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0/include/linux"
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Configure and build it

$ ./configure
$ make

After you have built Mesos, it is advisable that you build and run the tests, this will make sure that what you have installed meets all the requirements

$ make check

If the checks are successful, You are just one step away from installing it in your system installation paths

$ make install

To learn how to use Mesos , go here http://mesos.apache.org/gettingstarted/

I hope you found this useful and saved your time troubleshooting it.