The following steps will help install and run kafka quickly
wget https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/2.6.0/kafka_2.13-2.6.0.tgz tar -xzf kafka_2.13-2.6.0.tgz cd kafka_2.13-2.6.0 bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties & bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties &