connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Question

While installing hadoop in my local machine , i got following error

ssh -vvv localhost 
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011 
debug1: Reading configura         


        

Answer 1

It might be caused by some of the following:

1. SSH Server is not installed (only SSH Client), try: apt-get install ssh openssh-client openssh-server
2. Connection is blocked by iptables (Firewall), try: ufw allow ssh