MapR 5.1 is at End of Life (EOL) and no longer supported. Please see the latest documentation. This documentation is not being updated.

5.1 Installation
This section provides information for installing with or without (manual) the MapRInstaller, installing patches, upgrading, and migrating.
- Get Started: Install MapR
  The MapR Installer makes the installation of a MapR cluster easy. It installs MapR software after it takes you through the process of selecting services and configuring the cluster.
- Installation Guide
- Upgrade Guide
  - Upgrading and your License
    After upgrading MapR, the Base License file must be manually updated on all nodes in your cluster.
  - MapR Core Upgrade Process
  - Planning the Upgrade
  - Preparing to Upgrade
  - Upgrading with the MapR Installer
  - Upgrading without the MapR Installer
    - Set Up the Internet Repository: RHEL/CentOS
    - Set Up the Internet Repository: SUSE
    - Set Up the Internet Repository: Ubuntu
    - Set Up a Local Repository: RHEL/CentOS
    - Set Up a Local Repository: SUSE
    - Set Up a Local Repository: Ubuntu
    - Set Up Individual Package Files
    - Upgrading MapR Core Manually and Offline
    - Scripted Rolling Upgrade
    - Manual Rolling Upgrade
    - Configuring the New Version
      After upgrading MapR, configuration files and your licence must be manually updated and new features enabled.
    - Upgrading Ecosystem Components Manually
  - Upgrading Clients
- Applying a Patch
  MapR patches are version-specific and cumulative. Each patch contains the code fixes that were included in the previous patch for that MapR version.
- Migration Guide

Set Up the Internet Repository: SUSE

About this task

As root or sudo, you add the repository for the latest packages using a zypper command to specify URLs to the packages. See the MapR Release Notes for the URLs for all release packages.

Procedure

Change to the root user or use sudo.
Add the repository for MapR packages, replacing <version> with the version of MapR that you want to install.
zypper ar http://package.mapr.com/releases/v<version>/suse/ maprtech
Add the repository for MapR ecosystem packages.
zypper ar http://package.mapr.com/releases/ecosystem-5.x/suse/ maprecosystem
If your connection to the Internet is through a proxy server, set the http_proxy environment variable before installation.
```
http_proxy=http://<host>:<port>
export http_proxy
```
Update the system package index.
zypper refresh