Chapter 2. Flume Quick Start
As we covered some basics in the previous chapter, this chapter will help you get started with Flume. So, let us start with the first step, downloading and configuring Flume.
Downloading Flume
Let's download Flume from http://flume.apache.org/. Look for the download link in the side navigation. You'll see two compressed tar archives, available along with checksum and gpg signature files used to verify the archives. Instructions for verifying the download are on the website so I won't cover them here. Checking the checksum file contents against the actual checksum verifies that the download was not corrupted. Checking the signature file validates that all the files you are downloading (including the checksum and signature) ...
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