Install Hue from tar ball or source

To install Hue from tar file or source follow the following steps

Get the code

Download the tar ball from Git Hub or Cloudera website

https://github.com/cloudera/hue

or

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/latest/CDH-Version-and-Packaging-Information/cdhvd_topic_3.html

Extract it to some location

If you are using source then clone the code into some location

Development tools

You need to install following additional packages to build from source

https://github.com/cloudera/hue#development-prerequisites

I am using Ubuntu so i did by

$ sudo apt-get install ant gcc g++ libkrb5-dev libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libsqlite3-dev libtidy-0.99-0 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev  libldap2-dev python-dev python-simplejson python-setuptools


Build the package

$ git clone http://github.com/cloudera/hue.git
$ cd hue
$ make apps
$ build/env/bin/supervisor 

This will start Hue server on default port

You can configure various properties of hue

Go to 

/desktop/conf/hue.in file and edit it.