Zookeeper installation steps are nice and easy for dev environment.
- Download zookeeper from http://zookeeper.apache.org, extract it to some place, let it be /opt/zookeeper/
- Create a simple zoo.cfg file, i.e. copy config sample /opt/zookeeper/conf/zoo_sample.cfg to /opt/zookeeper/conf/zoo.cfg
- Start zookeeper
/opt/zookeeper/bin/zkServer.sh start - Stop zookeeper
/opt/zookeeper/bin/zkServer.sh stop