Installing Zookeeper on Windows

Question

Hi. I am trying to install Kafka on Windows which requires Zookeeper to be installed. But I don't know how to install Zookeeper. Can you please mention the steps for this?

Answer 1

Follow the below-mentioned steps to install Zookeeper on Windows.

First, download Zookeeper from http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html#download

Then open command prompt, switch to the folder where zookeeper was downloaded and extract the files

$ tar -xvf zookeeper-3.4.12.tar.gz

Open a windows explorer and go to the zookeeper folder and under that go to conf folder. You will find a file named zoo_sample.cfg, create a duplicate of this file and name it zoo.cfg and open it with a text editor.

Find the entry dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper and change the value of dataDir to the zookeeper folder like this:

And save the file.

Finally, you have to add the path. Refer to the below screenshots:

That’s it. To start Zookeeper, open command prompt and run:

> zkserver

You can refer this to know how to install Spark: https://www.edureka.co/community/38855/installing-spark-on-windows

Comments

Would only work on windows 7 for me when I use forward slashes and not the normal backslashes for the dataDir

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Usually, Linux OS use forward slash and Windows use the backslash. I don't see why it didn't work.