[CASSANDRA-15466] DOC - Improve installation pages, include YUM procedure

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha4, 4.0
• Component/s: Documentation/Website
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/ca2dc1bfa9a7555d565c6b8a4fb957e35a5c0f13

Test and Documentation Plan

CASSANDRA-15466 Improved installation page, added YUM instructions

• Assignee: Erick Ramirez (deprecated)
• Reporter: Erick Ramirez (deprecated)

Authors

Erick Ramirez (deprecated)

Reviewers

Jon Haddad

• Created: 02/Jan/20 04:13
• Updated: 20/Jun/20 16:30
• Resolved: 09/Apr/20 23:09

Description

Background

The installation instructions are a little lacking. I'm proposing we add more explicit steps which are targeted towards users who are very new to Cassandra.

Proposal

We can improve the installation pages with explicit instructions for the following:

• steps for installing older versions to match nodes in an existing cluster
• steps for installing RHEL/CentOS package with YUM

I am preparing a draft with details to follow.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-15699 DOC - Add known installation issues to the Troubleshooting page
• is related to: CASSANDRA-15698 DOC - Review Download page
• relates to: CASSANDRA-15888 DOC - Installation pages, curl command for retrieving keys
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #520
• links to: github.com/flightc/cassandra/tree/CASSANDRA-15466