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

Try installing whole SSH package pack:

sudo apt-get install ssh

I had ssh command on my Ubuntu but got the error as you have. After full installation all was resolved.