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
  - Upgrading Clients
    - Upgrade MapR Client
    - Upgrade MapR POSIX loopbacknfs Client
- 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

Upgrade the MapR Client on a Linux Server

About this task

To upgrade the MapR client on an RHEL, SUSE, or Ubuntu server, you must upgrade the mapr-client package. When you upgrade the MapR client packages on a the server, the configuration files in /opt/mapr/hadoop/hadoop-2.x.x directory are automatically copied into the active directory associated with the new hadoop 2.x.x directory.

Procedure

Configure the repository to point to the target release and operating system.
Run the following command to upgrade the client package:
- On RedHat / CentOS: yum upgrade mapr-client
- On SUSE: zypper update mapr-client
- On Ubuntu: apt-get install mapr-client