node(s). Installing Cassandra Using the Packaged Releases DataStax Community Edition provides RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu packaged releases for Cassandra on Linux. rpm and deb packages are currently supported package installation. Installing Cassandra RPM Packages DataStax provides yum repositories for CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 and Fedora 12, 13 and 14. These instructions assume that you Cassandra 1.0.3 and earlier, use nodetool scrub instead.) Upgrading Cassandra 43 To upgrade a CentOS/RHEL packaged release installation from 0.8.x to 1.0.x: 1. On each of your Cassandra nodes, run