Installing Hadoop on MacOS (M1/M2) : 2023

Follow the below steps carefully and in order. It took me a really long time to set it up correctly after running into several issues. However, the overall process in straightforward. Good luck.

Install hadoop with brew.

$ brew install hadoop

Go into the said directory. Also replace 3.3.6 with whatever version you’re working with.

$ cd /opt/homebrew/Cellar/hadoop/3.3.6/libexec/etc/hadoop

Open the directory on any code editor of choice.

$ code .

the expected list of files

Now, we are concerned about the following files.

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