INSTALL

		libpyhdfs installation


 step by step
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** install Java SDK 6
   # apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
   

** install Hadoop's libhdfs development package

   For easy to install packaes, follow instructions at

   http://archive.cloudera.com/docs/

   and then run

   # apt-get install libhdfs0-dev
   
** install libpyhdfs 

   - check out the source: 
      $ svn co http://libpyhdfs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ libpyhdfs   

   - prepare the libhdfs.so
      You can copy your libhdfs.so into `lib' directory.
   or 
      Edit setup.py: make `library_dirs' point to the correct place.
      7                    library_dirs = ['lib'],

   - install
      # python setup.py install --prefix="/usr/local"
   

  If you see the following error:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/include/jni.h:27:20: error: jni_md.h: No such file or directory

Edit /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/include/jni.h
change  - 27 #include "jni_md.h"
into    + 27 #include "linux/jni_md.h"

ses https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/390290
Debian has the same problem.


** Run test script
   $ cd test
   $ python pyhdfs_test.py