Fedora 12 Cloudera Hadoop setup + Java JDK

Cloudera's Hadoop distribution

When installing Cloudera's Hadoop distribution on Fedora 12 make sure you install
the Sun Java SDK using the method recommended below.




Sun Java

Fedora Java installation
# yum install hadoop
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hadoop.noarch 0:0.18.3-14.cloudera.CH0_3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: jdk >= 1.6 for package: hadoop-0.18.3-14.cloudera.CH0_3.noarch
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
hadoop-0.18.3-14.cloudera.CH0_3.noarch from cloudera-stable has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: jdk >= 1.6 is needed by package hadoop-0.18.3-14.cloudera.CH0_3.noarch (cloudera-stable)
Error: Missing Dependency: jdk >= 1.6 is needed by package hadoop-0.18.3-14.cloudera.CH0_3.noarch (cloudera-stable)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Cloudera RPM Java installation to avoid the yum install dep problem