etl Installing Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) PDI version 7 on local machine STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION
Example
Working with Kettle There are two versions of Kettle aka Pentaho Data Integration :
- Kettle CE (Community Edition)
- Kettle EE (Enterprise Edition)
Documents aims mainly on Kettle CE edition.
Prerequisites
PDI requires the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7. You can obtain a JRE for free from Oracle.
Java 8 for PDI 6 and above
Java 7 for older versions
Make sure the java path is set in the environmental variable under Control panel before you run the spoon.bat file.
Download PDI
You can download Pentaho Data Integration Community Edition from Sourceforge.net.
Link : https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data%20Integration/
For the Enterprise Edition, please use the Customer Support Portal, or go to
Link : http://www.pentaho.com/download/ for an Evaluation copy.
Above image is of sourceforge site
Once you open the Link : Install pdi-ce-7.0.0.0-25.zip (Latest as of now)
Windows OS : The installation of 801 MB will began.once the installation is done
- Extract the zip file from the download
- you will find the folder called “data integration”
- Navigate to the spoon.bat file and run spoon.bat file to start the Spoon GUI *Make sure the java path is set properly
Ubuntu/Linux OS
On Unix-like operating systems, you may need to make the shell scripts executable by using the chmod command:
navigate to the folder in the terminal
cd data-integration
chmod +x .sh
then just run the spoon.sh file
./spoon.sh
*Make sure the java path is set properly
Checking Java Path is set or not
go to terminal
echo $JAVA_HOME
the path returned by echo $JAVA_HOME is the java path If the above command is not returning the path check for java path again. Set java path and try again.
That's all about installing Spoon on Local Machine.
