Follow instructions at:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-cassandra-and-ru
n-a-single-node-cluster-on-a-ubuntu-vps
setup pre-reqs
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tar -zxf jdk-8u65-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /usr/local/java
sudo mv jdk1.8.0_65/ /usr/local/java
add these lines to the /etc/profile file:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
JRE_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JRE_HOME/bin
export JAVA_HOME
export JRE_HOME
export PATH

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/local/java/jdk1.

8.0_65/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/local/java/jdk
1.8.0_65/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/local/java/j
dk1.8.0_65/bin/javaws" 1
sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65/bin/java
sudo update-alternatives --set javac /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65/bin/javac
sudo update-alternatives --set javaws /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65/bin/javaws
sudo reboot
java -version
echo $JAVA_HOME
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz
tar xf Python-2.7.6.tar.xz
cd Python-2.7.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-
Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
make && make altinstall
python --version
# This will show Python 2.7.6

Installing Cassandra
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--Move the installation file to /temp

mv apache-cassandra-2.2.3-bin.tar.gz /temp
cd ~/temp
tar -zxf apache-cassandra-2.2.3-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-cassandra-2.2.3 ~/cassandra
sudo mkdir /var/lib/cassandra
sudo mkdir /var/log/cassandra
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/lib/cassandra
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/log/cassandra
export CASSANDRA_HOME=~/cassandra
export PATH=$PATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin
sudo sh ~/cassandra/bin/cassandra
sudo sh ~/cassandra/bin/cqlsh
-- it should connect properly