title: Sqoop 1.99.7 Installation on Centos 7
body: <p>I am new to Hadoop Eco System.</p>
  
  <p>I am in the process of setting up a Hadoop Eco System on a single node. Hadoop system is already been setup and is working fine along with HBASE and HIVE. To to connect to external sources of data, I am setting up sqoop 1.99.7 server. I am finding it difficult to setup, as documentation is creating sort of confusion. Can some one help me with step by step process... The steps done by me so far ..</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Java 1.7 version  - available</li>
  <li>Hadoop common - already been setup and verified</li>
  <li>Downloaded and installed sqoop version 1.99.7</li>
  <li>configured the ~/.bashrc file with
  export SQOOP_HOME=/usr/lib/sqoop
  export PATH=$PATH:$SQOOP_HOME/bin</li>
  <li>Source the bashrc file</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Now I am not clear, as per documentation provided, on and I am stuck here for the last one day...
  1. Creating Third party jars - 
      I have created a directory /var/lib/sqoop2 using
      mkdir -p /var/lib/sqoop2</p>
  
  <pre><code>(Creation did not give any error and unable to locate this directory)
  Hence copy all mysql-jdbc* files, postgresql-jdbc could not be done. Also
  Unable to locate mysl-jdbc* files in the server path
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2. I presume no action is required to configure the sqoop_boot starp. properties and sqoop.properties</p>
  
  <p>Unless the above steps completed, I ca not start the sqoop server. Can one correct me on the above as well what needs to be done.. Thanks in advance.. Sreeram</p>