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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-2993:
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Jason, I understand where you are coming from.
Would it be more clear if we just had:
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Required Software
1. JavaTM 1.5.x, preferably from Sun, must be installed.
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and then this section (later in quickstart.html) is sufficient:
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Download
First, you need to get a Hadoop distribution: download a recent stable release
and unpack it.
Once done, in the distribution edit the file conf/hadoop-env.sh to define at
least JAVA_HOME.
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Basically I'm proposing we remove the confusing reference from the 'Required
Software' section.
Thoughts?
> Specify which JAVA_HOME should be set
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>
> Key: HADOOP-2993
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2993
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: documentation
> Affects Versions: site
> Environment: irrelevant---issue w/ web documentation
> Reporter: Jason Rennie
> Assignee: Edward J. Yoon
> Attachments: 2993.patch
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> Original Estimate: 0.08h
> Remaining Estimate: 0.08h
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> Quickstart page (http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html)
> specifies that user should set JAVA_HOME under "1." of "Required Software".
> But, it does not specify where this should be set. My instinct (as would be
> the instinct of any un*x user) was to set this in his/her
> shell/profie/rcfile. Please specify that this should be specified in
> conf/hadoop-env.sh. Yes, this is clarified later under "Download", but is
> easy to miss, especially since the user will think that he/she had already
> set JAVA_HOME.
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