Installing on RHEL-based systems

To install Cassendra on RHEL-based systems, perform the following steps:

1. Add the Apache Cassandra 3.0 repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/datastax.repo:

        [datastax]
        name = DataStax Repo for Apache Cassandra
        baseurl = http://rpm.datastax.com/community
        enabled = 1
        gpgcheck = 0

1. Install the latest packages:

        $ sudo yum install dsc30 

1. Start Cassandra:

        $ sudo service cassandra start

On some Linux distributions, you many need to use the following:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/cassandra start