This document provides instructions for installing a single node Hadoop cluster on Ubuntu Linux. It describes downloading and configuring Hadoop, Java, and SSH. Configuration files like core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml are edited. Directions are given for formatting HDFS, starting daemons like NameNode and DataNode, and starting/stopping the Hadoop cluster. The goal is to set up a single node Hadoop 2.2.0 installation for experimentation and testing.