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HBASE-20754 [documentation] quickstart guide should instruct folks to set JAVA_HOME to a JDK installation. 

Signed-off-by: Sean Busbey <busbey@apache.org>
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Gokul 2019-02-28 11:11:55 +05:30 committed by Sean Busbey
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@ -67,18 +67,15 @@ $ tar xzvf hbase-{Version}-bin.tar.gz
$ cd hbase-{Version}/ $ cd hbase-{Version}/
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. You are required to set the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable before starting HBase. . You must set the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable before starting HBase.
You can set the variable via your operating system's usual mechanism, but HBase To make this easier, HBase lets you set it within the _conf/hbase-env.sh_ file. You must locate where Java is
provides a central mechanism, _conf/hbase-env.sh_. installed on your machine, and one way to find this is by using the _whereis java_ command. Once you have the location,
Edit this file, uncomment the line starting with `JAVA_HOME`, and set it to the edit the _conf/hbase-env.sh_ file and uncomment the line starting with _#export JAVA_HOME=_, and then set it to your Java installation path.
appropriate location for your operating system.
The `JAVA_HOME` variable should be set to a directory which contains the executable file _bin/java_.
Most modern Linux operating systems provide a mechanism, such as /usr/bin/alternatives on RHEL or CentOS, for transparently switching between versions of executables such as Java.
In this case, you can set `JAVA_HOME` to the directory containing the symbolic link to _bin/java_, which is usually _/usr_.
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---- .Example extract from _hbase-env.sh_ where _JAVA_HOME_ is set
JAVA_HOME=/usr # Set environment variables here.
---- # The java implementation to use.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112
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. Edit _conf/hbase-site.xml_, which is the main HBase configuration file. . Edit _conf/hbase-site.xml_, which is the main HBase configuration file.