Please pardon the elementary question.
I'm going through this tutorial.
I would like to install hadoop on vm ubuntu 64 bit.
I would like to know whether I should be downloading the .deb file or the tar.gz file from here?
What is the difference between these two types of files? Does ubuntu care which one?
22 Answers
.tar.gz is usually source code of that. So download it if you know what you are doing . Else simple download and install using .deb package
3I think the following is easiest:
dpkg -i packagename.deb
A tar.gz is often source code that would need to be compiled, and that isn't always very easy (particularly when it comes to figuring out what options are required or desired).
