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Please pardon the elementary question.

I'm going through this tutorial.

I would like to install hadoop on vm ubuntu 64 bit.

I would like to know whether I should be downloading the .deb file or the tar.gz file from here?

What is the difference between these two types of files? Does ubuntu care which one?

Alex Gordon
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.tar.gz is usually source code of that. So download it if you know what you are doing . Else simple download and install using .deb package

Tachyons
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I think the following is easiest:

dpkg -i packagename.deb

A tar.gz is often source code that would need to be compiled, and that isn't always very easy (particularly when it comes to figuring out what options are required or desired).

static
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