The last time that I installed Cassandra was on a version of Fedora 20. So, I new the first thing to check was the installation of Java. You can check the Java installation with two statements on a fresh installation of Fedora 27. You need to check the Java runtime and then the Java Software Development Kit before installing, starting, and using Cassandra.
Installing Prerequisites
You check the Java runtime with this command:
java -version
It should return:
openjdk version "1.8.0_171" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_171-b10) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.171-b10, mixed mode)
You check the Java Software Development Kit (JSDK) with this command:
javac -version
It should return:
javac 1.8.0_171
After verifying the Java and JSDK installation, you can install
the Cassandra packages with the following yum
command as the …