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Installation from Debian packages



For the <release series> specify the major version number, without dot, and with an appended x.


The latest <release series> is 41x.


For older releases, the <release series> can be one of 40x, 311, 30x, or 22x.


Add the Apache Cassandra repository keys:




curl -o /etc/apt/keyrings/apache-cassandra.asc https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/KEYS




Add the Apache repository of Cassandra to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list, for example for the latest 4.1




echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/apache-cassandra.asc] https://debian.cassandra.apache.org 41x main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list




Update the repositories:







Install Cassandra:




 sudo apt-get install cassandra




You can start Cassandra with sudo service cassandra start and stop it with sudo service cassandra stop. However, normally the service will start automatically. For this reason be sure to stop it if you need to make any configuration changes.


Verify that Cassandra is running by invoking nodetool status from the command line.


The default location of configuration files is /etc/cassandra.


The default location of log and data directories is /var/log/cassandra/ and /var/lib/cassandra.


Start-up options (heap size, etc) can be configured in /etc/default/cassandra.




Installation from RPM packages



For the <release series>`` specify the major version number, without dot, and with an appended x.


The latest <release series> is 41x.


For older releases, the <release series> can be one of 311x, 30x, or 22x.


(Not all versions of Apache Cassandra are available, since building RPMs is a recent addition to the project.)


For CentOS 7 and similar (rpm < 4.14), append the noboolean repository


Add the Apache repository of Cassandra to /etc/yum.repos.d/cassandra.repo, for example for the latest 4.0 version:




[cassandra]
name=Apache Cassandra
baseurl=https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/41x/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/KEYS

Or for CentOS 7:

[cassandra]
name=Apache Cassandra
baseurl=https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/41x/noboolean/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/KEYS




Install Cassandra, accepting the gpg key import prompts:




sudo yum install cassandra

Start Cassandra (will not start automatically):

Systemd based distributions may require to run systemctl daemon-reload once to make Cassandra available as a systemd service. This should happen automatically by running the command above.
Make Cassandra start automatically after reboot:

Please note that official RPMs for Apache Cassandra only have been available recently and are not tested thoroughly on all platforms yet. We appreciate your feedback and support and ask you to post details on any issues in the corresponding Jira ticket.
