This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Supported Operating Systems

CDH 5 provides packages for Red-Hat-compatible, SLES, Ubuntu, and Debian systems as described below.

Operating System	Version	Packages
Red Hat compatible
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)	5.7	64-bit
	6.2	64-bit
	6.4	64-bit
	6.5	64-bit
CentOS	5.7	64-bit
	6.2	64-bit
	6.4	64-bit
	6.5	64-bit
Oracle Linux with default kernel and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel	5.6	64-bit
	6.4	64-bit
	6.5	64-bit
SLES
SLES Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)	11 with Service Pack 1 or later	64-bit
Ubuntu/Debian
Ubuntu	Precise (12.04) - Long-Term Support (LTS)	64-bit
Debian	Wheezy (7.0, 7.1)	64-bit

Note:

CDH 5 provides only 64-bit packages.
Cloudera has received reports that our RPMs work well on Fedora, but we have not tested this.
If you are using an operating system that is not supported by Cloudera's packages, you can also download source tarballs from Downloads.

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