Cassandra can also be installed from a downloaded Tarball. Navigate to the Apache Cassandra project download page^[2] at http://cassandra.apache.org/download/, and look for the most recent release. If you require a specific, older version of Cassandra, you can find a link to the archived releases there as well.

Once you have downloaded the Tarball, put it in the directory where you intend to install it. For this example, we will download Apache Cassandra 3.10, create a local directory on the system, and move it there:

sudo mkdir /local
sudo chown $USER:$USER /local
cd /local
mv ~/Downloads/apache-cassandra-3.10-bin.tar.gz

The browser interaction can be skipped entirely, by hitting Apache's Cassandra archive site from the command line with wget or curl:

curl -O https://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/3.10/apache-cassandra-3.10-bin.tar.gz

Now we can untar it, and it should create a directory and expand the files into it:

tar -zxvf apache-cassandra-3.10-bin.tar.gz

Many people find it more convenient to rename this directory:

mv apache-cassandra-3.10/ cassandra