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macOS X: Download and set up Kafka in PATH

macOS X: Download and set up Kafka in PATH - Kafka Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Apache Kafka for Beginners

macOS X: Download and set up Kafka in PATH

Hi, this is Stephane from Conduktor and we are going to set up the Kafka binaries on Mac OS X. This lecture is necessary even if you have started Kafka using conduktor because we are going to launch CLI commands using this method. Okay. So please follow these steps no matter what. So we need to install Java JDK version 11 on our computer. Then we need to download Kafka from the Kafka website and have a binary version on our computer. We'll extract the content on Mac and then we'll set up the path environment variable for easy access to the Kafka binaries. And this step can all be replaced with the brew utility on Mac. But I will demonstrate this right after we're done with all the Mac OS X set of videos. But if you just want to skip to that video, you can as well. Okay. So that's it. Let's get started. Okay. So we are going to follow the instructions on conduktor kafkademy because I wrote them and you have a written reference to them as well. So first we need to install Java JDK…

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