[SOLVED] Install Kafka with sbt in an isolated environment

Issue

I'm trying to install Kafka, on RHEL 6.6, with the following instructions:

> tar xzf kafka-<VERSION>.tgz
> cd kafka-<VERSION>
> ./sbt update
> ./sbt package

When installing sbt with yum install sbt-0.13.9.rpm from the bintray rpm repository everything goes fine but then when trying to execute sbt commands I get alway the following error:

root@servername:/# sbt
Getting org.scala-sbt sbt 0.13.9 ...

:: problems summary ::
:::: WARNINGS
                module not found: org.scala-sbt#sbt;0.13.9

        ==== local: tried

          /root/.ivy2/local/org.scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.9/ivys/ivy.xml

          -- artifact org.scala-sbt#sbt;0.13.9!sbt.jar:

          /root/.ivy2/local/org.scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.9/jars/sbt.jar

        ==== my-maven-proxy-releases: tried

          http://nexus-bp2s.is.echonet/content/groups/public/org/scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.9/sbt-0.13.9.pom

          -- artifact org.scala-sbt#sbt;0.13.9!sbt.jar:

          http://nexus-bp2s.is.echonet/content/groups/public/org/scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.9/sbt-0.13.9.jar

                ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

                ::          UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES         ::

                ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

                :: org.scala-sbt#sbt;0.13.9: not found

                ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::



:: USE VERBOSE OR DEBUG MESSAGE LEVEL FOR MORE DETAILS
unresolved dependency: org.scala-sbt#sbt;0.13.9: not found
Error during sbt execution: Error retrieving required libraries
  (see /root/.sbt/boot/update.log for complete log)
Error: Could not retrieve sbt 

The biggest problem is that I need to make it work in a closed intranet environment.

I already tried to add our nexus proxy as the maven repository but still, doesn't work.

So the big question is how can I install sbt completely local (no need for it to connect anywhere)? Or is there an alternative to install Kafka in RHEL 6.6? And how?

Solution

For some reason you ended up on the instructions for possibly the oldest Kafka version (v0.7) still out there, which was released in 2012. :-)

So the big question is how can I install sbt completely local (no need for it to connect anywhere)?

Nowadays Kafka doesn't even use sbt anymore, so there's no need to install sbt anywhere (and no need for it to connect anywhere).

Instead, follow the latest instructions at http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart_download:

Download the 0.10.0.1 release and un-tar it.

$ tar -xzf kafka_2.11-0.10.0.1.tgz
$ cd kafka_2.11-0.10.0.1

That's it. You don't need to do any sbt update calls etc.

Or is there an alternative to install Kafka in RHEL 6.6? And how?

If you prefer ready-to-use RPMs for installing on RHEL 6 (so you can use yum install ..., or Puppet, Ansible, ...), you may want to take a look at http://docs.confluent.io/3.0.1/installation.html#installation-yum.

PS: Or are you really trying to install Kafka 0.7? Unless you have a very special/good reason to do that, I'd definitely recommend to not touch it and instead go with the most stable release, which is Kafka 0.10.0.

Answered By - miguno

Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (WPSolving Admin)