On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, tammuz <[email protected]> wrote: > So I downloaded Mahout from this link: > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout/ > as you can see there are 3+2 folders (0.1, 0.2, 0.3) and > (mahout-collection-codegen-plugin-1.0, mahout-collections-1.0), I assume > that (0.1, 0.2, 0.3) refer to different versions of Mahout so I decided to > use the 0.3 assuming that it is the newest one.
Yes exactly. > passing to the 3rd step, no path like this exist I fond a zip file inside > the 0.3 folder called mahout-0.3-src.zip, on extracting it I get a folder > called mahout-0.3 inside which I can find the path stated in 3 but without > the trunk folder (ie, > taste-web/src/main/resources/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/example/grouplens). Yes, the .zip file is the distribution you are directed to download. I can change 'trunk' to '[your installation dir]', sure. You are right that it might be the directory 'mahout-0.3' for you which is produced after unzipping the archive. > for step 7 I did not find the folder target in the folder examples, in > addition I tried to search for the file grouplens.jar but could not find it. Then it seems 'mvn install' (step 5) wasn't run, which generates these files. > step 8 I did not need to edit the file recommender.properties because the > value was already the same as described in this step Did you uncomment the line though? Otherwise it's not actually set. > in step 10 I received the next error Yes this means step 8 didn't happen
