Installing Cassandra in Ubuntu

cd /tmp
wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/cassandra/2.1.6/apache-cassandra-2.1.6-bin.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apache-cassandra-2.1.6-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-cassandra-2.1.6 ~/cassandra

sudo mkdir /var/lib/cassandra
sudo mkdir /var/log/cassandra
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/lib/cassandra
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/log/cassandra

sudo gedit .bashrc

export CASSANDRA_HOME=~/cassandra
export PATH=$PATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin


sudo sh ~/cassandra/bin/cassandra
sudo sh ~/cassandra/bin/cassandra-cli