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

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

Sean Busbey created HBASE-20754:
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             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.



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