Using mahout in an eclipse WITHOUT USING MAVEN

Question

I really don't want to use maven because it seems like a huge problem. Is there a way to just download mahout and use it in my eclipse project? All I get from using maven are build path errors and millions of warnings.

I was looking for a way to do this, but people seem to be using maven all the time.

Answer 1

I am not tuned to this. I hate Maven.

The problem with Mahout is that they decided to use it. If this is the case, you are also stuck with it.

Answer 2

Actually, I don’t think you could use Mahout without Maven, because Mahout is a Maven project! In eclipse you can install the maven plugin (or on the elicpse market, find integrated M2), you can refer to this post Maven in Eclipse: step-by-step installation

The blog is very good for us to learn how to install mahout: how to install mahout

By the way, you can ignore the hadoop installation. If Mahout cannot find the HADOOP configuration on your computer, it will run locally.

Answer 3

The best way to use mahout is to use the Maven.Its build tool, a great tool for building and managing a project, however, it throws errors for missing artifacts, etc., but you will find a solution to overcome it using the wiki and the error displayed, it shows you decide after the details of the error.

You can work very well on mahout without creating it. Just download the required jars and add them to BuildPath in eclipse. You can run this as a regular Java program.

Answer 4

I know this late, but let him answer anyway:

I don't know if things have changed, but I first used mahout for the first time - and I did not use Maven. I simpy followed the steps given in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD40rVKUwPI

In particular, read the description of the following tutorial: "Note: this manual uses maven for the project, unlike the first tutorial." ==> I assume that this means that using Maven is optional .

Answer 5

I had the same problem too. If you just want to use mahout as a java library for your project, you can use it in eclipse without using maven. You just need to create a custom library and load the jar files into it. Then just put this library in your build path.