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Improve Documentation for Installing Kafka Connect

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#12,516 opened on Mar 13, 2025

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Description

Feature Request / Improvement

The current installation instructions for Kafka connect seem to leave a bit of ambiguity that makes it difficult for users to get started. We should specify exactly what is required to start and in the future we should have a more complete solution which doesn't require building the project.

https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/nightly/kafka-connect/#installation

Currently doesn't mention what the zip is called or if the zip needs to be extracted which seems to be the case according to #12507

See #12507 for more details

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Kafka Connect

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Research direction
Review the current installation documentation at https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/nightly/kafka connect/#installation and the discussion in #12507 to clarify the steps, specifically what the zip file is named and whether extraction is needed.
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