1.1. Terminology

Table 4.1. Terminology
Item Description

Yum Package Manager (yum) RHEL/Centos/Oracle Linux

or

Zypper Package Manager (zypper) SLES

A package management tool that fetches and installs software packages and performs automatic dependency resolution. See http://yum.baseurl.org/ or http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Zypper for more information.

Local Mirror Repository

The Yum or Zypper repository hosted on your Local Mirror Server that will serve the HDP software.

Local Mirror Server

The server in your network that will host the Local Mirror Repository. This server must be accessible from all hosts in your cluster where you will install HDP.

HDP Repositories

A set of repositories hosted by Hortonworks that contains the HDP software packages. HDP software packages include the HDP Repository, HDP-UTILS Repository, and the Ambari Repository.

HDP Repository Tarball

A tarball image that contains the complete contents of the HDP Repositories.


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