[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-20754) quickstart guide should instruct folks to set JAVA_HOME to a JDK installation.

["Gokul (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gokul commented on HBASE-20754:
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[~busbey] If the update is okay, does this change have to be voted up to be committed? Could you please let me know if I've got to do something? I plan to look at other minor issues after this one is committed. Thank you. 

> 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
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Sean Busbey
>            Assignee: Gokul
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: beginner
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-20754.master.001.patch, HBASE-20754.patch
>
>
> 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.



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