Mahout Installation And Setup

Basics Of Mahout

• Mahout is an open source machine learning library from Apache.

• The algorithms it implements fall under the broad umbrella of machine learning or collective intelligence.

• Scalable.

• JAVA Library- It doesn’t provide a user interface, a prepackaged server, or an installer. It’s a framework of tools intended to be used and adapted by developers.

Mahout Setup

How To install Mahout in Local System(LINUX).

• JAVA must be installed into your system.

• Install Maven.

   

          ############## Apache-Maven #########
  	    export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.2.3
  	    export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
  	     export PATH=$M2:$PATH
  	     export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
         

  • Check if the Maven is properly installed.

      mvn --version
      

   

  • Download Apache Maven from Apache official website.

  • Extract the distribution archive, i.e. apache-maven-3.2.3-bin.tar.gz to the directory you wish to install Maven. These instructions assume you chose/usr/local/apache-maven. The subdirectory apache-maven-3.2.3 will be created from the archive.

  • Go to bashrc in terminal and set up the Maven Home path.

• Install Mahout.

  #########Apache-Mahout############
  export MAHOUT_HOME="/opt/mahout-distribution-0.9"
  export PATH=$MAHOUT_HOME/bin:$PATH
  

  • Check if the Mahout is properly installed.

  	mvn install
  

  • Download Apache Mahout from Apache official website.

  • Extract it to your desired location.

  • Go to bashrc in terminal and set up the Mahout Home path.

To use Mahout in a Maven Project one just need to add a Maven Dependency as below.

		org.apache.mahout
		mahout-core
		0.9
	

Hope this Mahout Installation tutorials helped you in easily installing mahout into your system.

Regards,

Kartik Arora