Download a latest stable version of Hbase http://apache.claz.org/hbase/
sudo tar -zxvf hbase-1.0.1-bin.tar.gz
sudo mv hbase-1.0.1-bin /usr/local/hbase
sudo nano ~/.bashrc
export HBASE_HOME=/usr/local/hbase
export HBASE_CONF_DIR=$HBASE_HOME/conf
export HBASE_CLASS_PATH=$HBASE_CONF_DIR
export PATH=$HBASE_HOME/bin:$PATH
source ~/.bashrc
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