Pig Installation in Ubuntu

Step1. Download and extract the tar file.

· Download Pig-0.11.1.tar.gz from here

http://archive.apache.org/dist/pig/pig-0.11.1/

· Enter into the directory where the tar file is downloaded. By default it get downloaded in “Downloads” directory of your system. Use the following command to enter into the directory:

$ cd Downloads

Unzip the tar file by using the command,

$ sudo tar xvf
‘home/easylearning/Downloads/pig-0.11.1.tar.gz’

Unzipped pig-0.11.1 directory

Rename the pig-0.11.1.tar.gz directory to pig directory.

Step 2. Move pig directory to another destination.

$ sudo mv <src> <destination dir>

eg. sudo mv '/home/easylearning/Downloads/pig' /usr/local

Step3. Set PIG_HOME path to the .bashrc file

To open bashrc file, use this command:

$ sudo gedit $HOME/.bashrc

In bashrc file, add the following lines of code.

export PIG_HOME=/usr/local/pig

export PATH=$PATH:$PIG_HOME/bin

Step 4. Set the environment variable of java and pig in '/etc/profile' file.

Open the profile file by using the following command.

$ sudo gedit /etc/profile

Add the following lines at the end of that file

export PIG_INSTALL=/home/easylearning/pig-0.11.1

export PATH=$PATH:$PIG_INSTALL/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle

export PIG_CLASSPATH=/usr/local/hadoop/conf/

Step 5: ‘Source’ is a bash shell built-in command that executes the content of the file passed as argument in the current shell. It reads and executes commands from ‘filename’ in the current shell environment.

$ sudo /etc/profile