Cloudera[1] already has Debian packages for hadoop, but these are not part of Debian. On my question[2] they replied, that they would be working on getting their packages shaped for Debian. However they did not yet reply to this RFP as I asked them. [1] http://cloudera.com/distribution [2] http://getsatisfaction.com/cloudera/topics/official_debian_packages Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro