Installation directory

Question

I installed the .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 of confluent 4.1 I am able to get through the quickstart fine. However, some things require env variable to be set:

$CONFLUENT_HOME is not defined. Run 'export CONFLUENT_HOME=/path/to/confluentplatform'

I looked in:

/opt
/usr/local
/usr/lib

but nowhere to be found. I then tried:

idf@idf-vb:~$find / -iname confluence  2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

still nothing. Trying:

idf@idf-vb:~$ find / -iname confluent  2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

/var/log/confluent
/home/idf/Documents/confluent
/home/idf/Documents/confluent/quickstart-demos/connect-streams-pipeline/src/main/java/io/confluent
/home/idf/Documents/confluent/quickstart-demos/connect-streams-pipeline/src/main/resources/avro/io/confluent
/usr/bin/confluent

I did find

idf@idf ls /etc/confluent-common/

but there is nothing inside that directory

Other than the /usr/bin directory of the executable, which hardly seems like the home directory, nothing still. The confluent directory under idf are just examples.

Where do I find my installation directory?

EDIT 1

After doing

idf@idf-vb:~$ find / -iname confluent*  2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

I do get a bunch of directories, but still unsure which the HOME dir is:

idf@idf-vb:~/Documents/confluent$ find / -iname confluent*  2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-zookeeper.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-kafka.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-schema-registry.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-ksql.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-kafka-connect.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/confluent-kafka-rest.service.dsh-also
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-storage-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-s3.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-cli.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-storage-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-rest-utils.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-platform-oss-2.11.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-2.11.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-cli.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-s3.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-camus.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-camus.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-2.11.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-camus.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-ksql.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-connect-s3.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-platform-oss-2.11.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-2.11.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-rest-utils.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-rest.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-2.11.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-schema-registry.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-kafka-2.11.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/confluent-common.list
/var/log/confluent
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-connect-s3_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-2.11_1.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-cli_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-camus_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-ksql_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-common_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-connect-storage-common_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-platform-oss-2.11_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-schema-registry_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-kafka-rest_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/confluent-rest-utils_4.1.1-1_all.deb
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-schema-registry.service
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-kafka-rest.service
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-zookeeper.service
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-kafka-connect.service
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-ksql.service
/lib/systemd/system/confluent-kafka.service
/tmp/confluent.Gv3442C2
/tmp/confluent.current
/etc/confluent-common
/home/idf/Documents/confluent
/home/idf/Documents/confluent/quickstart-demos/images/confluent-logo-300-2.png
/home/idf/Documents/confluent/quickstart-demos/connect-streams-pipeline/src/main/java/io/confluent
/home/idf/Documents/confluent/quickstart-demos/connect-streams-pipeline/src/main/resources/avro/io/confluent
/usr/bin/confluent
/usr/share/java/confluent-common
/usr/share/java/camus/confluent-camus-4.1.1.jar
/usr/share/doc/confluent-schema-registry
/usr/share/doc/confluent-camus
/usr/share/doc/confluent-common
/usr/share/doc/confluent-ksql
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-connect-storage-common
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-rest
/usr/share/doc/confluent-platform-oss-2.11
/usr/share/doc/confluent-cli
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-connect-s3
/usr/share/doc/confluent-kafka-2.11
/usr/share/doc/confluent-rest-utils
/usr/share/doc/kafka/confluent-support-metrics-client
/usr/share/confluent-common
idf@idf-vb:~/Documents/confluent$

A reasonable guess is this one since there is stuff in it:

idf@idf-vb:~/Documents/confluent$ ls /usr/share/java/confluent-common
build-tools-4.1.1.jar    common-metrics-4.1.1.jar  jline-0.9.94.jar  netty-3.10.5.Final.jar  zkclient-0.10.jar
common-config-4.1.1.jar  common-utils-4.1.1.jar    log4j-1.2.17.jar  slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar    zookeeper-3.4.10.jar
idf@idf:~/Documents/confluent$ 

Answer 1

I figured out that even though there are two options to install confluent, the . deb/rpm package etc, and the .tgz file , some example programs appears to require that you to download the . tgz file and make the directory it creates the HOME directory.

The package installation is misleading in that AFAIK, there is no way to create a HOME directory.

At least for now, I suggest just downloading the .tgz file.