Installing Apache Cassandra on Mac
1 min readOct 17, 2018
create a folder for cassandra
$mkdir -p ~/opt/packages/cassandra/
download the file and unzip
$curl -O http://www-us.apache.org/dist/cassandra/3.11/apache-cassandra-3.11.3-bin.tar.gz
$tar -xzf apache-cassandra-3.11.3-bin.tar.gz
create a soft link
$ln -s ~/opt/packages/cassandra/apache-cassandra-3.11.3 ~/opt/cassandra
Edit the ~/.bash_profile to add PATH and source the setting
$sudo vim ~/.bash_profile
$source ~/.bash_profile
Verify does it succeed
$cassandra -v