HBase Fedora Install

Taken and shortened from the Cloudera HBase install instructions for Fedora 13/14

• Install the Sun Java JDK
  • Download the Sun JDK
    • rpm.bin version
  • bash jdk-6u12-linux-i586-rpm.bin
  • use new Java (optional) sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 20000
• Get the HBase yum repo
  • wget "http://archive.cloudera.com/redhat/cdh/cloudera-cdh3.repo"
  • mv cloudera-cdh3.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
• Install the HBase rpms via yum
  • sudo yum install hadoop-hbase hadoop-hbase-master
• Start the HBase server
  • sudo /etc/init.d/hadoop-hbase-master start

If you want thrift...

• Install hadoop-hbase-thrift
• edit /etc/init.d/hadoop-hbase-thrift to add a "-f" flag to the start() block's line (search for "start thrift"). If you want it only bound to your loopback, also added "-b 127.0.0.1" in.
• /etc/init.d/hadoop-hbase-thrift restart

And talk to the server...

hbase shell