To install HBase On RHEL-compatible systems:

$ sudo yum install hbase

To install HBase on Ubuntu and Debian systems:

$ sudo apt-get install hbase

To install HBase on SLES systems:

$ sudo zypper install hbase

  Note: See also Starting HBase in Standalone Mode, Configuring HBase in Pseudo-Distributed Mode, and Deploying HBase on a Cluster for more information on configuring HBase for different modes.

To list the installed files on Ubuntu and Debian systems:

$ dpkg -L hbase

To list the installed files on RHEL and SLES systems:

$ rpm -ql hbase

You can see that the HBase package has been configured to conform to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. (To learn more, run man hier).

You are now ready to enable the server daemons you want to use with Hadoop. You can also enable Java-based client access by adding the JAR files in /usr/lib/hbase/ and /usr/lib/hbase/lib/ to your Java class path.