[jira] Created: (HADOOP-6841) In Quick Start, mention requirement that HADOOP_HOME needs to be set

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

In Quick Start, mention requirement that HADOOP_HOME needs to be set
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                 Key: HADOOP-6841
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6841
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: documentation
    Affects Versions: 0.20.2
            Reporter: Steve McCarthy
            Priority: Minor


Ref:  http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/quickstart.html#Local
Ref: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/QuickStart

As a person new to Hadoop, I was walking through the Quick Start pages referenced above.  I got stuck on the first example and had to go digging through the scripts to figure out why it wasn't working for me.

It turns out that I didn't have the HADOOP_HOME environment variable set.  It would have saved a lot of time if the instructions mentioned setting this variable.  

Thanks.

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