How to install Cassandra in centos linux

How to install Cassandra in centos linux

1.Necessary Modules For cassandra server.

yum -y install gcc-c++ make cmake python-devel bzip2-devel zlib-devel
log4cpp-devel git git-core cronolog google-perftools-devel

yum -y install readline-devel ncurses-devel libtool autoconf expat
libevent-devel flex byacc expat-devel

2.Install the SUN JAVA.

Download latest SUN JDK from the link.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and
install it.

3.Download the latest Cassandra version from the link.
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

wget
http://apache.cyberuse.com//cassandra/0.8.6/apache-cassandra-0.8.6-bin.tar.gz

tar -zxvf apache-cassandra-0.8.6-bin.tar.gz

cp -rf apache-cassandra-0.8.6 /usr/local/cassandra

4.After completing the cassandra installation ,you can start the
cassandra as.

/usr/local/cassandra/bin/cassandra -f &