Installation of Kafka on Vagrant Ubuntu Base Box. We may not want to use the ppa:webupd8team/java PPA to install HotSpot JDK. http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart

Installation of Kafka

mkdir ~/kafka

vagrant init metrics http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

curl -O http://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/sbt-native-packages/org/scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.1/sbt.deb
sudo dpkg -i sbt.deb

curl -O http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/kafka/0.8.0/kafka-0.8.0-src.tgz
tar xvzf kafka-0.8.0-src.tgz
cd kafka-0.8.0-src/

./sbt update
./sbt package
./sbt assembly-package-dependency

nohup bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties >zookeeper.nohup &
nohup bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties >kafka-server.nohup &

The 0.8.0 location does not exist anymore on that server.

This worked for 0.8.1.1 (based on the README):

curl -O http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/kafka/0.8.1.1/kafka-0.8.1.1-src.tgz
tar -xvzf kafka-0.8.1.1-src.tgz
cd kafka-0.8.1.1-src/
cat README.md
# using gradle now
kafka-0.8.1.1-src$ ./gradlew clean
kafka-0.8.1.1-src$ ./gradlew -PscalaVersion=2.10.4 jar

# fix the filename of the core lib (marked with 2.10 instead of 2.10.4)
kafka-0.8.1.1-src$ cp core/build/libs/kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar core/build/libs/kafka_2.10.4-0.8.1.1.jar