Installing earlier releases of the DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra 3.x

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/.

To install the same version as other nodes in your cluster, see:

Installing earlier packages on RHEL-based platforms

Follow the install instructions in Using the Yum repository and specify the version in the /etc/yum.repos.d/datastax.repo file.

Installing earlier packages on Debian-based platforms

Follow the install instructions in Using the APT repository and specify the version_number in the install command.

Installing using the binary tarball

Cassandra 3.2 examples:

Using curl:

$ curl -L  http://downloads.datastax.com/datastax-ddc/datastax-ddc-3.2.0-bin.tar.gz | tar xz

Downloading the tarball using the URL for the prior version and then extracting:
1. Download:
```
http://downloads.datastax.com/datastax-ddc/datastax-ddc-3.2.0-bin.tar.gz
```
2. Unpack the distribution. For example:
```
$ tar -xzvf datastax-ddc-3.2.0-bin.tar.gz
```
  The files are extracted into the ddc-cassandra-3.2.0 directory.