This document provides instructions for installing a single-node Hadoop cluster on Ubuntu. It outlines downloading and configuring Java, installing Hadoop, configuring SSH access to localhost, editing Hadoop configuration files, and formatting the HDFS filesystem via the namenode. Key steps include adding a dedicated Hadoop user, generating SSH keys, setting properties in core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml and mapred-site.xml, and running 'hadoop namenode -format' to initialize the filesystem.
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