Installing prior releases of DataStax Community

Steps for installing the same version as other nodes in your cluster.

DataStax no longer provides the DataStax Community version of Apache Cassandra™ or the DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra. See DataStax support for Apache Cassandra.
To download and install the latest version of open-source Cassandra, see https://cassandra.apache.org/.

How to install the same version as other nodes in your cluster.

Follow the install instructions in the relevant documentation and specify the specific version in the install command.

Installing the packages on RHEL-based platforms

Examples:
$ sudo yum install dsc20-2.0.2.1 cassandra20-2.0.2-1
$ sudo yum install dsc20-2.0.2.1 cassandra20-2.0.2-1 cassandra20-tools-2.0.2-1 ## Optional

Installing the packages on Debian-based platforms

Examples:
$ sudo apt-get install dsc20=2.0.2-1 cassandra=2.0.2
$ sudo apt-get install dsc20=2.0.2-1 cassandra=2.0.2 cassandra-tools=2.0.2 ## Optional

Installing from the binary tarball

  1. Download the tarball using the URL for the prior version.

    Cassandra 2.0.0 example:

    http://downloads.datastax.com/community/dsc-cassandra-2.0.0-bin.tar.gz

    Cassandra 2.0.3 example:

    http://downloads.datastax.com/community/dsc-cassandra-2.0.3-bin.tar.gz
  2. Unpack the distribution. For example:
    $ tar -xzvf dsc-cassandra-2.0.3-bin.tar.gz

    The files are extracted into the dsc-cassandra-2.0.3 directory.