Installing Pig on Linux System

Question

Please help me with the steps to install Apache Pig on Linux system.

Answer 1

It was a good thing that you mentioned Apache Pig :P

Well, follow these steps to install Pig:

To install pig, you first need the pig file. You can download the pig file from:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/pig

Next, extract the files using this command:

$ cd Downloads

$ tar -xvf pig-0.16.0.tar.gz

Now, we need to add Pig path to the bashrc file. Run the following commands for this:

$ cd ..

$ nano .bashrc

Now, add the following entries to the bashrc file:

export PIG_HOME=/home/edureka/Downloads/pig-0.16.0

export PATH=$PATH:/home/edureka/Downloads/pig-0.16.0/bin

export PIG_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_CONF_DIR

Save (Ctrl+O) and exit (Ctrl+X)

Reload the changes using:

$ source .bashrc

Now, to verify the installation, run the following command:

$ pig -version

This will print the version of Pig installed.