I am trying to install accumulo 1.6 in the current quickstart  cdh5.2.x distribution (downloaded 12/13/2014) to train folks.

I am suprised it is not pre-installed.

I want to be able to compile and run accumulo client programs in java and get to apprpriate java docs for accumulo.

I tried the instructions at http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/Accumulo/latest/PDF/Apache-Accumulo-Instal...

Install Apache Accumulo from Distribution Packages
This section describes how to install Cloudera's packaging of Accumulo from packages (RPM or DEB)
instead of using Cloudera Manager.

I am not sure to use rpms, repo, .targz. 

I find the instructions somewhat confusing and would appreciate your assistance.

thanks in advance.