A BASH script to setup everything we need for a Cassandra development machine with Ubuntu Desktop.

setup-cassandra-dev.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Script written by Tony Piazza (https://gist.github.com/tonypiazza)

# make sure we have sufficient privileges
if [ $UID != 0 ]
then
   echo -e "Insufficient privileges!"
   exit 1
fi

echo "-----> Adding required PPAs..."
add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update

echo "-----> Downloading Cassandra..."
wget -P ~/Downloads http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/cassandra/2.0.2/apache-cassandra-2.0.2-bin.tar.gz

echo "-----> Installing Java..."
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | debconf-set-selections
apt-get -y install oracle-java7-installer

echo "-----> Installing Eclipse..."
eclipse_bin="#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME='/opt/eclipse'
\$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse \$*"
eclipse_desktop="[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true"
wget -P ~/Downloads http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/kepler/SR1/eclipse-jee-kepler-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
cd /opt
tar -zxf ~/Downloads/eclipse-jee-kepler-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
touch /usr/bin/eclipse
chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_bin" | tee /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_desktop" | tee /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
cd

echo "-----> Installing Ant..."
apt-get -y install ant

echo "-----> Installing LibYAML..."
wget -P ~/Downloads http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
tar -zxf ~/Downloads/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
cd yaml-0.1.4
./configure
make
make install
cd

echo "-----> Installing python-dev..."
apt-get -y install python-dev

echo "-----> Installing PyYAML..."
wget -P ~/Downloads http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
tar -zxf ~/Downloads/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
cd PyYAML-3.10
python setup.py --with-libyaml install
cd

echo "-----> Installing JNA..."
apt-get -y install libjna-java

echo "-----> Installing CCM..."
cd /opt
mkdir ccm
cd ccm
git init
git pull https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm.git
./setup.py install
cd

echo "-----> Reinstalling VMware Tools..."
apt-get -y autoremove
apt-get -y install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` psmisc
vmware-config-tools.pl -d

echo "-----> Installation completed in $SECONDS seconds."

Nice Tony! I'll see about modding your script for dse.

Lorina