How to Install Mesos on Kali Linux

Mesos is an open-source distributed systems kernel that provides resource management abstraction for applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Mesos on Kali Linux.

Prerequisites

Before installing Mesos, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Ubuntu 14.04 or higher
• JRE(Java Runtime Environment) version 7 or higher
• JDK(Java Development Kit) version 7 or higher
• cURL command line tool

Step 1 - Update Your System

Before installing Mesos in Kali Linux, update your system by running the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Step 2 - Install Required Dependencies

Mesos has several dependencies that must be installed before installation. To install the dependencies, run the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential python-dev python-boto libcurl4-nss-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules maven libapr1-dev libsvn-dev git

Step 3 - Download Mesos

Download Mesos by running the following command:

curl -O http://www.apache.org/dist/mesos/1.8.0/mesos-1.8.0.tar.gz

Step 4 - Extract Mesos

Extract the downloaded tarball using the following command:

tar -zxf mesos-1.8.0.tar.gz

Step 5 - Build Mesos

Build Mesos by running the following commands:

cd mesos-1.8.0
./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
sudo make install

Step 6 - Verify Mesos Installation

Verify the installation of Mesos by running the following command:

mesos-master --version

If the output displays the Mesos version, then you have successfully installed Mesos on Kali Linux.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Mesos on Kali Linux. You can now start using Mesos to manage your applications in a distributed environment.

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