You can install BookKeeper either by downloading a GZipped tarball package or cloning the BookKeeper repository.

Requirements

• Unix environment
• Java Development Kit 1.8 or later
• Maven 3.0 or later

Download

You can download Apache BookKeeper releases from one of many Apache mirrors. Here’s an example for the apache.claz.org mirror:

$ curl -O http://apache.claz.org/bookkeeper/bookkeeper-4.13.0/bookkeeper-4.13.0-src.tar.gz
$ tar xvf bookkeeper-4.13.0-src.tar.gz
$ cd bookkeeper-4.13.0

Clone

To build BookKeeper from source, clone the repository, either from the GitHub mirror or from the Apache repository:

# From the GitHub mirror
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper
# From Apache directly
$ git clone git://git.apache.org/bookkeeper.git/

Build using Maven

Once you have the BookKeeper on your local machine, either by downloading or cloning it, you can then build BookKeeper from source using Maven:

$ mvn package

Since 4.8.0, bookkeeper introduces table service. If you would like to build and tryout table service, you can build it with stream profile.

$ mvn package -Dstream

You can skip tests by adding the -DskipTests flag when running mvn package.

Useful Maven commands

Some other useful Maven commands beyond mvn package:

You can enable table service by adding the -Dstream flag when running above commands.

Package directory

The BookKeeper project contains several subfolders that you should be aware of:

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