Sean Busbey created HBASE-20754: ----------------------------------- Summary: quickstart guide should instruct folks to set JAVA_HOME to a JDK installation. Key: HBASE-20754 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20754 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: documentation Reporter: Sean Busbey
The quickstart guide currently instructs folks to set JAVA_HOME, but to the wrong place {code} 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. JAVA_HOME=/usr {code} instead, it should tell folks to point it to a jdk installation and help them on how to find that. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)