Prerequisites and Requirements

Hardware Requirements

CPU (processor must support at least SSSE3)
Minimum Memory: 8GB

Supported Operating Systems

Linux

Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04

OS X

Not supported

Windows

Not supported

Installing and Configuring Impala

Install prerequisites

git clone https://github.com/awleblang/impala-setup
cd impala-setup
sudo ./install.sh

Clone the Impala git repo and change to the new Impala directory.

git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-impala.git Impala
cd Impala

Set the following environment variables in your `.bashrc` or elsewhere:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
export IMPALA_HOME=<path to Impala>
export BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.5
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin 
export PATH=$M2:$PATH