A great way to jump into CDH5 and Spark (with the latest version of Hue) is to build your own CDH5 setup on a VM.  As of this writing, a CDH5 QuickStart VM is not available (though you can download the Cloudera QuickStart VM for CDH4.5). Below are the steps to build your own CDH5 / Spark setup on CentOS 6.5.  Note, the installation of CDH5 through Cloudera Manager is actually quite straight forward.  Instead, these instructions focus on the steps prior to installing Cloudera Manager 5 (and the express install of CDH5) to minimize the hiccups you may run…