Introduction

Kettle is Pentaho’s ETL tool, which is also called Pentaho Data Integration (PDI).

Installing Kettle is extremely simple.

Install Java

Follow the JDK installation instructions that are listed in the following post: Install Java JDK 6.0 update 31 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Download

To download the Kettle either run the following command, or follow the bulleted steps below.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentaho/Data%20Integration/4.3.0-stable/pdi-ce-4.3.0-stable.tar.gz

Or follow the steps below if you don’t want to use the wget command shown above.

• Open a web browser to http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Latest+Stable+Builds.
• Click 4.3.0-stable.
• Click pdi-ce-4.3.0-stable.tar.gz.

Installation

Next, open a terminal and enter the following commands:

cd ~/Downloads

tar -xzf pdi-ce-4.3.0-stable.tar.gz

mv data-integration ~/bin/pdi-ce-4.3.0

cd ~/bin

ln -s pdi-ce-4.3.0 data-integration

cd ~/bin/data-integration

To run Spoon:

./spoon.sh

Additional Reading

There is a lot of good documentation installed with PDI.

cd ~/bin/data-integration/docs/English

Open your favorite PDF viewer, or type:

evince getting_started_with_pdi.pdf

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