How do I install Cloudera Hue on Mac OS X Lion?

We wrote a guide about this topic: http://gethue.com/start-developing-hue-on-a-mac-in-a-few-minutes/

The Hue release download you're trying to compile, works only until CDH3u1 onwards, after which CDH3 had some internal API method changes, over some methods that Hue depends on.

The following works for me, to compile Hue 1.2.0 against CDH3u1:

$ wget http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hadoop-0.20.2-cdh3u1.tar.gz$ tar xf hadoop-0.20.2-cdh3u1.tar.gz; export HADOOP_HOME=hadoop-0.20.2-cdh3u1$ cd hue-1.2.0/$ make apps

You'd of course need some dependencies to compile all components successfully. I use Homebrew to manage mine, and this is my currently installed list (you do not need all of these, but may need some of these):

$ brew listautoconf    gd      jpeg        pango       rrdtoolautomake    gettext     libffi      pidof       snappycairo       glib        libtool     pixman      wgetcmake       gnu-sed     lua     pkg-config  xzcoreutils   gnuplot     mysql       protobufexpat       intltool    p7zip       readline

For a release of Hue that works with your CDH3 version, you can pick the right download from the CDH3 archives: http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/.

So, for your CDH3u2 version, download and use http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hue-1.2.0.0-cdh3u2.tar.gz which carries 1.2.0 version of Hue with some backports on it from master that fix compilation for CDH3u2.